Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early 1980s, David headed for the desolate Christmas Mountains of West Texas. The cabin he has used for part of each year stands 20 miles from the nearest paved road. Before it was finished, he hunkered down for a while in just a hole dug in the ground. To keep out what little rain fell, he pulled a tarpaulin across the opening...
...game would have ended. Baer has proved that he can be both wrong and arrogant, but he is obviously not stupid. On April 1, he helped the man who appointed him by reversing his ruling, which left the President free to climb back onto the moral high ground. "It's important not to get into the business of characterizing judges based on one decision they make," Clinton said almost immediately after Baer fell on his gavel. Dole, too, accommodated the changed landscape with stunning speed. "I don't suggest we ought to be able to pressure judges, but we ought...
...could be formidably cool. Once, Margaret threatened to jump out her window if a friend who was hosting a house party did not leave his guests to comfort her at home. Panicked, the host called the Queen. "Carry on with your party," she said. "Her room is on the ground floor...
...remains resting on the catafalque built for Abraham Lincoln couldn't be faking it as well. Many of them, with their flimsy umbrellas breaking in the wind and icy rain, didn't know Brown but knew someone who did or benefited from some project he got off the ground. Jasper Johnson, who passed by the casket early Wednesday morning, cut Brown's hair every two weeks for 20 years in Shaw. It was the neighborhood Brown often frequented, where he dropped off his shoes to be repaired and ate lunch on Saturdays; nearby, he played his weekend basketball games...
...that time, the club voted to drop the word Radcliffe from its name, a measure that some former club members contend led female members of the club to feel that they did not stand on equal ground with the male members of the organization...