Word: gnats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took a late goal by Liz Berkery, then a precocious freshman coming off the bench, and it took (in Kleinfelder's words) "the gnat-fly." That was Hansen, coming off the bench when Harvard was behind Maryland, 4-0, in the first half. Using her aggressive quickness, she, along with Gaffney paralyzed the Terrapin at tack...
...event of the imagination? During the '60s, that hallucinatory decade, the writer Carlos Castaneda sought illumination with his teacher Don Juan through the use of peyote, Jimson-weed and mushroom dust. Drug miracles: Castaneda found himself having conversations with a bilingual coyote and looking at a 100-ft.-tall gnat with spiky, tufted hair and drooling jaws...
...Patricia Schroeder (D-Colo.) said last year that debating flag burning laws is like "chasing a gnat around the light bulb as the planet is burning down." If a few key legislators have their way, Congress this summer is going to try chasing that gnat all over again--and this time, it may actually catch...
...CONGRESS, ready to sieze the gnat, has begun to gear up for another round of flag burning debate. Last week, Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, vowed to introduce a constitutional amendment to protect the flag if the Court overturns the 1989 flag...
...early, early on granted this media man the right to treat as important only those things which are immediately appreciable as dynamic and exiciting, such as famine war and pestilence and otherwise exciting and sound-biteable things like charisma, Madonna, valuable political wisdom, the lifespan of the common gnat, poll results, arms agreements, editorial comments, earth evaporating nuclear strikes...hey, what a Sound Bite that would be, get that on all the networks, yeah boy. News Flash! and we do mean flash. And we do mean bite. And we do mean noise. BAWOOOOM !... as Calvin and Hobbes...