Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arresting everyone they could. The two would have to race the Red Army to the border. And since no one would guide them, they gathered the last of their money, the last of their courage, and bought directions from a hunchbacked smuggler who spoke of secret byways the Russians hadn't yet discovered...
Grove, the scientist, pursued one on his own. He hit the library. "I read until I found that when I picked up an article, I had read it," he recalls. "I hadn't done that much research since I got my Ph.D." In the mornings Eva would drive to Stanford and copy the latest journals. At night Grove would paw the trove, looking for something...
...those 39 Nike-clad members of the Heaven's Gate cult who committed the tidiest of suicides last March didn't leave behind much except for their bodily "vehicles," a few personal possessions and a handful of still living devotees who, in the cult's decidedly unsoaring ecclesiastical language, hadn't yet made it to the "level beyond human." Six weeks later, fellow "students" Chuck Humphrey and Wayne ("Nick") Cooke attempted to complete their course work in the approved manner--by swallowing a combination of alcohol and phenobarbital and tying plastic bags over their heads--in a Southern California motel...
...Senate confirmation to be Ambassador to France, came clean about her entry in Who's Who in America: she was not a college graduate, nor had she done postgraduate work at the Sorbonne. Ronald Reagan so conflated his movies with real life that he often spoke as if he hadn't spent the war years on the back lot in Culver City...
...dissed the New Democrats for lacking "core values." And of course the core of the New Democrats happens to be Bill and Al. The White House went postal. Gephardt's chief of staff tried some pre-emptive spin with the White House, telling top adviser RAHM EMANUEL that Gephardt hadn't meant to criticize Clinton or Gore. Emanuel's reply: "I didn't get very good grades in college, but I'm not stupid...