Word: greats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trains stopped here to give G.I.s one last fling on their way to World War I. But the town's most enduring legend is its 95-year-old bank. As it boasts on the side of its building, the institution is "time-tried, panic-tested," a survivor of the Great Depression...
Elusive, but fascinating. The creator of such enchantingly lyrical and devastatingly sensual works as My Mother's House and Cheri was a mentor to many but a horror to her own daughter. At great risk to her reputation, she performed half-naked on the stage and had open lesbian relationships, yet believed that feminists deserved "the whip and the harem." She found her most secure love with her third husband, Maurice Goudeket, a man 17 years her junior who was a Jew, yet she was an anti-Semite and in the Nazi-occupied France of World War II displayed what...
...Great steps forward in technology and medicine--the LASIK procedure is undoubtedly one of them--will always carry some risks. Our patients need accurate information like your report in order to make an informed decision. JEFFREY D. NIGHTINGALE, M.D. New York City...
Kudos to all the Chinese people who made it through a surreal and dreary half-century [WORLD, Oct. 4]. Mao and Deng Xiaoping were great leaders, but the people who survived their dogmas were greater...
...fields so powerful that a marshmallow falling into one would release as much energy as a thousand hydrogen bombs. If two of these bodies began orbiting each other, they would ultimately collide, leading to titanic gamma-ray blasts. Other researchers believe the bursts are due to especially large supernovas, great stellar outbursts called hypernovas...