Word: footings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strolled onto the lot where the blast of hydraulics, the turning of engines and the beeping of hazard warnings melded into a mechanized symphony. To the left there was curious structure--a little booth attached to a thirty-foot long scale. The trucks rolled onto the scale and proceeded towards the monstrous cavern where all of the gathered trash was dumped...
...Dumpty in Through the Looking-Glass pretending to Alice that "glory" means "a nice knock-down argument." Pretending that blasphemy is denying one's dreams is as logical as claiming that extortion is a weak cup of tea or that homeopathy is picking up the telephone with one's foot. But of course what the author really meant is that desiring passionately is an infinitely more important thing that being mindful of religion--that passionate desire overrides everything else. It's an idea as old as the world's first adolescent...
This year's Halloween celebration ended with a near-riot. After some idiots in the already thinning crowd started throwing bottles at cops a little before midnight, the whole police contingent--including mounted police, a couple of police dogs, a few officers on motorcycles and dozens on foot--methodically cleared the streets in the center of town...
Berman was the catalyst for the score, creating Moore's scoring chance with a great pass. Berman took possession on the right side near midfield and evaded two Dartmouth defenders before sending a long drive with her left foot down the center of the field to the streaking Moore...
...parents, who migrated from New Zealand to Australia when he was four, catered TV and film sets in between running pubs, which is where he picked up smoking. In his 20s, he toured and sang (and smoked) with his own band, which still performs as 30 Odd Foot of Grunts. By 30, he had 10 films to his credit Down Under, most notably 1992's Romper Stomper, in which he played a psycho skinhead. Sharon Stone brought him to Hollywood for her 1995 western The Quick and the Dead. But it was his role as the pugilistic cop with...