Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talk shows to talk about the vast, right-wing conspiracy engulfing the President, her husband. She sent recorded telephone messages to thousands of women all over the country so they would vote Democratic in the 1998 elections. Giuliani, too, ran likable Big Apple mayor David Dinkins into the ground during them 1993 mayoral election with vicious ads and hard campaigning...
After freshman corner Willie Alford's tentativetackle of junior running back Chris Menick,lineman Will Ratcliffe said, "That's right, don'tlet him hit the ground too hard...
...Like Brooks Brown." Harris claimed to have the weaponry to carry out his threat against Brown. His website offered bomb-building instructions and boasted that he and a friend, code-named "VoDka," had made four pipe bombs and detonated one ("Flipping thing was heart-pounding gut-wrenching brain-twitching ground-moving insanely cool!"). And if all that weren't enough, Brooks knew that "VoDka" was his old best friend, Dylan Klebold, who had become Harris' new best friend but had tipped Brooks to the hateful website. Terrified, the Browns searched their property for bombs and filed complaints with the sheriff...
Republicans are betting that this too will pass, that as with Jonesboro and Paducah, Pearl and Springfield, once the white coffins are in the ground and the cameras gone, the outrage will subside. But maybe not this time. In town meetings and talk radio, the public has had its fill of politicians talking resignedly about our gun culture, as if there's nothing to be done about a subgroup that finds schoolyard massacres an acceptable cost for its right to be armed to the teeth. But if the Constitution speaks of a "well-regulated militia," why don't we regulate...
...confused by the labels in the grocery store: multigrain, stone ground, cracked wheat. What's important is the first item in the list of ingredients. You're looking for the word whole. If it says enriched or wheat flour, it's a refined product...