Word: gravell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...concert grounds in Ulysses, Pennsylvania, down a gravel road off Route 49, on property of a white supremacist named "Chip" Kreis, a weekend-long rock concert is about to begin. A rock concert whose spectators do not appreciate the press. Someone says to a TIME reporter, "I want to be smiling, I want to get little dimples in my cheeks when I read that article. 'Cause if I don't, I'm going to come and fing kill you, do you understand? I'm not f ---ing joking, man -- look me in the face -- I'm going to find...
...construction, which involved clearing the backyard of trees and grass and replacing it with gravel and pavement, was one of many projects in the past three months the landlord authorized. Many of the tenants believe that the construction is an attempt to force old tenants to leave in order to find new tenants willing to pay higher rent...
...convincing fellow scientists has been a battle. Guidon's conclusions have been greeted with skepticism by many archaeologists. One problem, explains Randall White of New York University, is that the "tools" from the deepest levels at Pedra Furada are mixed with naturally fractured river gravel. This suggests that the geological layer was not laid down in an orderly way. The stone flakes could easily have been churned together with much older river rock before settling. Moreover, they might not be human-made at all; the artifacts themselves could have formed by natural erosion...
...suspicious. "I thought it was a scam," he says. "I told Vickie that as long as nobody asked for any credit cards or money, I'd go along with it." Although he had never played basketball as a kid, he planted a brand-new Slam Dunk hoop in his gravel driveway last September and began to practice. Sort of. There were interruptions, like hunting season...
...gravel-voiced, tough-talking street pol from Chicago who learned her trade under Lee Atwater, Matalin, 38, oversees the Bush campaign's links to 50 state operations while helping to hone its message machine. Carville, 47, is a Louisiana Cajun with a taste for the jugular. According to an article in Vogue, when Carville informed Matalin at a Washington dinner party that he was going to work for Clinton, she excused herself and promptly threw...