Word: holing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rowling, a single mother who wrote part of the first Harry book while on the dole, feels she has slid right down the rabbit hole into Wonderland. The daughter of middle-class parents near Bristol, she began writing secretly when she was six, and after university took a series of jobs, mainly as a teacher. But she never considered writing for children until one day in 1990, when "Harry just strolled into my head fully formed." That same year, however, her life fell apart. Her mother died of multiple sclerosis at 45, and Rowling was both burglarized and fired from...
...hereditary obligation to hate. I wonder how Bill Clinton and the privileged American tribe will fare in the dark wood of the Balkans. What's happening there now amounts to a religious war between the future and the past. Beware: in that place, the past is a black hole...
...know how to get [to the end] from here," Hannum said. "NATO has dug us an awful big hole...
...five-hole to give Harvard an insurance goal and 4-2 lead just before the second period ended...
...load of nuclear garbage finally rumbled up to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in the New Mexico desert last week. Protests, lawsuits and bureaucratic snafus had delayed for 11 years the opening of the nation's first permanent deep-rock nuclear repository and turned the project into a black hole of costs: the $1 billion price tag eventually got to $19 billion. Even so, the plant will operate at barely 40% of capacity until state regulators grant certification. "Radioactive wastes will be a lot safer here than sitting around at old bomb plants," said ROBERT NEILL, director of the Environmental...