Word: hack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Braun's low-budget, grass-roots movement benefited from Hofeld's slick $5 million campaign, which attacked Dixon as a backslapping political hack. While Hofeld and Dixon split the white male vote, Braun edged past them, with strong support from blacks and women providing the margin of victory. If she wins the general election against Republican Richard Williamson, 42, a former Reagan Administration official, Braun will become the first black woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate...
...married. Write on both sides of the page--single-blue-book finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are fond of affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points if you can hack it. But above all, keep us entertained, keep us awake. Be bold, be personal, be witty, be chock full of facts. I'm sure you can do it all without studying if you try. We did. Best Wishes A Grader
Midway up the trail we met Trieu Van Hin, the party chief of Suoi Pai hamlet, close to the crash site. He had led a squad of villagers to hack some of the foliage away from the trail, clearing our path. Almost exactly 26 years earlier, Hin had been one of the first people to arrive at the scene of the crash, less than half a mile from the present location of Suoi Pai hamlet...
...that you attempted to contact me a number of times. I received only one message which in no way indicated that returning the call was urgent. Even if I had received repeated messages and attempted to reply it would have been an exercises in futility. As proven by the hack job which appeared on December 14, even the simplest facts are distorted when filtered through one of your overzealous first-year "reporters...
...mainland, Yamashita's bicycle-riding invaders needed only 70 days to pedal and hack their way 600 miles down the Malayan peninsula. All through the night of Jan. 31, British troops marched out of Malaya and across the 1,100- ft.-long causeway to the island fortress of Singapore. The last 90 to leave were Argyll Scots marching to their bagpipers skirling Hielan' ((Highland)) Laddie. The British then blew a 70-ft. gap in the causeway -- but the inrushing waters proved to be only 4 ft. deep at low tide...