Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tank ran into a corner of the building and it basically collapsed. Then someone shouted, 'A fire has started!' The black smoke was intense. I couldn't see." Some speculated that the tanks punctured the propane tank barricading the door, sending flames speeding through a storage room full of gallon fuel containers for the lanterns, lighting the hay bales and other debris. Children and others in the outside rooms fled them for interior areas, but within minutes these were ablaze too. David Thibodeau, one of the Mighty Men, told his mother that he tried to run upstairs...
...SATURDAY NIGHT AT DENIM & DIAmonds, a country-western nightclub in Santa Monica, California, and the joint is jumping -- literally. Under a spinning glitterball flanked by stuffed moose and deer heads, several hundred people in boots and ten-gallon hats are doing something called the Electric Slide. As a band pumps out a country hit, the dancers hook their thumbs in the front pockets of their jeans and line up shoulder to shoulder. Moving together to the beat, they cross one foot over the other and take three steps to the left, three steps to the right, rock back and forth...
...those who revered the Cowboys as America's Team, it was the beginning of a decade of galling frustration. They were to have precious few playoff opportunities to put on their ten-gallon hats and lizard-skin boots, pose by their pickups and act nasty. Or ogle the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders as they sashayed their postseason routines across the hallowed petroleum-byproduct turf at Texas Stadium. Instead, there was Sunday upon Sunday filled with ignominy and gloom. No divisional championships. No Super Bowls...
COUNTRY MUSIC AT ITS WORST IS like Marlboro Country, peopled with pseudo cowboys in tight jeans, ten-gallon hats and boots made from cute animals. One senses a moral cancer beneath the surface: the all-American spirit of the music, far from including all Americans, actually seems a form of exclusion for people and issues. For years, the androgynous singer k.d. lang was locked out of main-stream country. Garth Brooks caught flak for a video that dared deal with domestic violence...
...anonymous students told the Daily News that they dumped a gallon of paint on the statue and left, leaving the can and the lid behind...