Word: falling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clapprood, are known less for what they would do in office than for the controversial things they have done in the past. A once loved mayor with nearly universal name recognition, Flynn has a gift for working a crowd and a reputation for excessive drinking that was examined last fall in a front-page story in the Boston Globe. Clapprood is a raspy-voiced bleached blond who jumped from a stint in the state legislature to a gig as one of New England's most famous--and raunchiest--radio personalities. (On the air she once asked Fabio, the romance-novel...
...summer has come to an abrupt end. It's likely, though, that one day they'll again ride bikes and shoot hoops--even if it's inside a locked facility. This fall Ryan Harris was headed for sixth grade, a time when kids go to their first school dance, join in team sports and play in the band. And she probably would have continued to rush to the defense of friends. Now those friends are wishing they had been there...
...over my left shoulder, a tall pine tree that has split into two trunks at its base. The dead lower branches have been severed, leaving large tan coins on the bark. But the tree flourishes near the top in an array of green fans that rise and fall like a queen's hand. All shades of green are displayed, many so subtle they have no names. Though I have looked at this tree for years, the sight of it always surprises me nicely...
...high-energy style to filling Wapner's old seat on The People's Court. Koch is a partner in a law firm, teaches at New York University, is host of a daily radio show, does another show for Bloomberg Television and is putting out his 10th book this fall. Just getting him to be quiet long enough to hear a case is impressive enough...
...alarmed by the strange-looking $20 bills spilling out of ATMs this fall. The newly designed denominations, which go into circulation in late September, are just the Treasury's latest weapon against counterfeiters. The phony-proof paper features a larger portrait of President Jackson and a watermark that's visible only when held up to a light...