Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of bike is no longer made and parts are rare, but given the opportunity I enjoy taking it apart and fixing it up, putting it back together again. It is also an extremely convenient way of getting around (no more parking problems), save when snow lies on the ground, and has provided a great deal of wonderful Sunday afternoons spent cruising the city, either alone or with a passenger behind...
...Family is the training ground for society," she said. "If we treat our spouses with compassion and mercy, our children learn compassion and mercy...
Harrison has conducted ground breaking research in crystallography--the study of three-dimensional structures--according to Vito A. Turso, a spokesperson...
Until about 10 years ago, this tiny firehouse served as a training ground for rookies and a house of punishment for white firemen who had fallen out of favor with their bosses. Most of those men took little interest in the neighborhood--with the exception of the few black fire fighters who were there--and treated the station house as a fortress. Residents viewed them as outsiders, and some youngsters vandalized the place with rocks and graffiti. But as white firemen slowly transferred out, a core of African Americans who chose to remain behind began leaving the station's steel...
...family's extraordinary efforts to hide the truth about themselves and manipulate the press into cooperating with them in that effort. Hersh adds some significant new detail to all these stories and many others. But he also offers a larger justification for returning to this sordid and oft-trod ground: "Kennedy's private life and personal obsessions--his character--affected the affairs of the nation and its foreign policy far more than has ever been known." Hersh's book fails most conspicuously on that point...