Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tradition when mourning a fallen colleague, HUPD officers and security guards have black bands taped to their civil service badges...
Gaudi was in a general way a more saintly character than, say, Frank Lloyd Wright or Philip Johnson. But there is a deeper problem: the absence of miracles, which the Vatican authorities need as "verification of godliness." Mere piety is not enough for sainthood. No worker, so far, has fallen from the Nativity Facade of the Sagrada Famolia and been caught by an angel; no Japanese tourist has burst out with stigmata in the ticket line. The best that Almuzara and his devotees have been able to come up with is a student who thinks Gaudi helped her pass...
...Meanwhile, there's still the matter of an appeal. A cursory phone call from Clinton attorney Bob Bennett Sunday told Paula's lawyers that their last-minute offer of $2 million to settle the suit before it goes to appeal Tuesday had fallen flat in the White House. And Bennett also said his current $700,000 offer wouldn't be on the table forever. Jones herself, egged on by husband Steve and spokeswoman Susan Carpenter McMillan, had decided to up the ante and demand $1 million from both Clinton and New York parking lot magnate Abe Hirschfeld. Her lawyers argued...
...brutal takeover, women were-ordered to go home-and stay there. Should they desire to journey outside they must cover themselves from head to toe and be in the company of a male relative at all times. So what if you're one of 30,000 widows of fallen soldiers and have to take your sick child to the hospital? Sorry. Bang. Dead. Or at least that's what happened last week to one poor mother trying to carry her critically ill infant to medical help...
...good for the Crimson. The doubles point was in hand and junior Joe Green had quickly dispatched of his opponent 6-2, 6-2 to put the Crimson up 2-0 in the early going. However, sophomore James Blake had split sets with Aaron Marchetti, junior John Doran had fallen in straight sets to Adam Marchetti and sophomore Andrew Styperek had lost the second set 6-3 after taking the first 6-2. Styperek went on to lose the third set 6-4, putting the match...