Word: haunted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little gunpowder and some simple ingredients. There are books on the market, often purchased by children, detailing the construction of simple explosives, like the amateur pipe bomb recently found in LaGuardia airport. There is no escaping these realities; the work of our own hands has come back to haunt...
...through endless fashion magazines to avoid sloshing in the tracks of the white whale. Although I'm an American history and literature concentrator, I have as yet evaded a re-reading of Melville's tome (sacrilege in many Harvard quarters), but I think Ahab's ghost may return to haunt me next year in 19th-century literature...
...free at Seoul, perhaps her best race ever, and one that would haunt her, Evans hollowed out East Germany's big, powerful Heike Friedrich with an astonishing 4:03.85, an entirely unexpected clocking that knocked 1.6 sec. off her own world record. Her time in the 800-free victory that followed was a mere Olympic record of 8:20.20--3 sec. short of the world record that she had set some months earlier. It was worth little more than a nod. Janet had taken care of business, but gee, better luck next time. And indeed in 1989, in Tokyo...
...last year she had begun to win meets, in times appreciably better for the 400 and 800 free than she had clocked at Barcelona. Her world records no longer haunt her. "I'm not quite sure how I did what I did then," she muses, "but the records are mine; they're nice to have...
...gross incompetence is not something to dismiss." Carney reports that Senator Arlen Specter may look into the option of granting Marceca immunity for additional testimony. But Carney notes the real fireworks, if any, won't surface until independent counsel Kenneth Starr completes his investigation, meaning that Filegate could haunt Clinton throughout the campaign season. -->