Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wander into breakfast, and as you walk, you notice a remarkable spring in your step. You are so light, your body feels so airy that you almost feel as though your legs are reaching to touch the ground instead of pushing to hold you up. You don't even feel tired. As a matter of fact, you feel more energetic than you felt the day before! Not only that, but you feel more alert than ever; when you look around at the buildings outside, everything appears incredibly sharp and focused, and the voices of the people around you sound remarkably...
...between studying for the test and taking it, between hard work and future failure or success--and maybe even between childhood and adulthood--you can get stuck in time, like a thick mud that grabs hold of your foot as you're stepping with the other foot onto solid ground. You can't think about "nothing" at that moment, because "nothing" is exactly what you fear the most, that somehow you won't make it from Point A to Point B, that you'll sleep through your exam, that you won't get a job or get into graduate school...
...being made public.? The reason, he says, is that Saddam Hussein continues to restrict the operations of U.N. weapons inspectors, and the belief that force ? or the threat of force ? will be necessary to force Baghdad to allow inspectors access to sites it has declared off-limits. ?The ground is being prepared for a showdown,? says Dowell...
...what goes on in Weegee's festive, suffering, unsanitary New York is a sight to be enjoyed more than clucked over. The tenements that preoccupied Riis, a moralist and social reformer, are taken for granted by Weegee, a melodramatist, who treats the city as no more than the staging ground for each night's blunt sensations...
DIED. HELEN WILLS MOODY (ROARK), 92, imperturbable tennis ace; in Carmel, Calif. Her trademark white eyeshade set an enduring fashion trend, but there was nothing frivolous about Little Miss Poker Face, as she was known. She stood her ground like a tank, drilling out bullet serves and powerful baseline drives. Her casualties were legion: she won 31 major championships, including eight at Wimbledon, and her frequent rival Helen Jacobs was dubbed "Helen the Second...