Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talked about government, it was to describe it as the benign paternalistic arm ready to embrace America's civic life as a mirror of the homes baby boomers grew up in. Sarah Brady, the gun-control advocate, brought her wheelchair-bound husband onstage to deliver another above-the-fray message: Guns kill kids too. And of course Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to center stage with a coolly effective defense of her own child advocacy, as the image of daughter Chelsea loomed large on the screen behind her. (Message to the Other Couple: We know about delivery rooms and tonsil operations...
Members of the NASA-led team arrived in Washington fully prepared to enter the fray. They distributed copies of their peer-reviewed report, which the prestigious journal Science accepted for publication in this week's issue, and displayed some remarkable scanning electron-microscope images of the tiny structures found inside the meteorite...
Finally, Councillor Katherine Triantafillou entered the fray, urging even harsher measures...
...skilled at sitting above the fray and pulling the strings attached to all parts of the University. Rudenstine, however, subscribes to a very different leadership philosophy, emphasizing the personal over the institutional...
...next day, the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Bow Street social organization that occasionally publishes a so-called humor magazine, also decided to enter the fray...