Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though I'll return to Boston come September and love it for its own peculiarities, I'm devoting this summer to re-learning to love Minnesota. I've lost my faint Boston accent and I'm droppin' the g's off of most'-ing' words these days. I'm walking to the grocery store and writing a check every time, and they never ask me for ID. My alarm clock is tuned to the local country music station, and I sing along in the shower to those twangy melodies I scorned in high school because I just couldn't wait...
...other impression is of a faint haze ofzaniness that hung over the Crimson building at 14Plympton St. I remember an eight-day bicycle racestaged when Crimson editors lugged bikes into thebig news room and made a raceway by pushing allthe desks together in a tight rectangle. Writersworked imperviously, tossing copy to the desk inthe intervals between riders...
...faint hope that NATO could negotiate a quick way out still beat in some hearts. Clinton "supposed" something useful might come of former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin's efforts, but once the terms of Milosevic's summit-eve offer to contemplate some international peacekeeping force emerged, they were no more acceptable than his previous overtures. The allies would still love to have Moscow mediate a settlement as a way to bring it back into partnership with the West...
...million in damages for the wrongful arrest of his client. Prosecutors blame the botched investigation on procedural slips and dismiss any suggestion of intentional wrongdoing by detectives handling the case. Even if Pincham prevails in court, it's clear his client will have a hard time recapturing even a faint reminder of his previous life. Once an A student, family members say the boy, now a third-grader, brings home grades that range from failing to barely passing. He has been so tormented by his peers that rather than fight, the boy has withdrawn socially, preferring to spend his time...
...schools across America is a special issue of TIME FOR KIDS, TIME's classroom magazine. The issue is the culmination of an effort begun in the fall, when TFK issued a challenge to its readers in Grades 4 through 6. This challenge was not for the homework faint-of-heart: students were asked to conceive, plan and execute a project that would improve some aspect of the environment in their community. TFK promised to publish a report on standout projects in the last of its three-part series of environment-themed special issues, produced with the support of Ford Motor...