Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final period belonged to Bevilacqua (six goals, one assist) who answered the call three different times, drew two penalties, collected a crucial ground ball and generally carried the team on his back...
Ellison said he would use the award to take time off from teaching and finish his upcoming book, "On Fertile Ground: Ecology, Evolution, and Human Reproduction...
...crocodile" appears to have caught himself in a trap of his own making. In choosing to hang tough and reject a deal allowing secret testimony to South Africa's Truth Commission, former president P.W. Botha found himself defending a contempt of court case that will likely cover the same ground. "In the end, Botha's simply doing it the hard way," says TIME Johannesburg bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. "The commission will present all the evidence against him in order to explain why he was subpoenaed, and Botha will have to respond to that evidence. But the result of his stubbornness...
...they'd go through anything to win a Pulitzer. It's doubtful how many would want to experience this: A brutal flood that ravages their newspaper, their printing plant and most of their homes. A fire that destroys their offices and archives. Every last material possession burned to the ground or washed away...
...well-publicized gains, it just wasn't our century. American women only got the vote in 1920 (and a rest room near the Senate chambers only in 1992). For most of the past 98 years, much of the world's female population has been voteless, voiceless, illiterate, ground down by toil and sexist restrictions. When I griped to my daughter about the shortage of our kind among the top 20 leaders, she sighed at my paleofeminist pique: "But, Mom, it's just the 20th century. You know, the bad old days...