Word: horizon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences as they are on the wall's of Sal's Famous Pizzeria. For another life will still be a little lonely over in Afro-Am, despite the arrival of Gates and the crew of new junior faculty that may be on the horizon. It is, after all, the development of a solid, permanent faculty that would best serve Afro-Am. One-semester stints with stars are nice; long-term academic commitment is better...
...trying to return to Kuwait is even more desperate. Men, women and children are encamped near the border highway. U.S. soldiers have given them rations, but they have no water. On a cold, rainy night last week, the Iraqis huddled around campfires. The horizon was lit by the flames of the burning oil fields. In her tattooed hands, Fadiyah Saad held her new granddaughter, born by the roadside on March 5. The family was debating whether to name the child Hudud (borders) or Istiqlal (independence...
That joyful scene was staged amid the ruins of what had been a gleaming metropolis. It was backlighted by towering orange flames on the horizon where hundreds of oil wells, torched by fleeing Iraqis, continued to burn and block the midday sun with huge curtains of dense black smoke. The eerie pall was a visible symbol of the dark ordeal Kuwait had lived through during the Iraqi occupation and a final, horrifying week of murder, kidnapping and destruction...
...take it down because members of the Jewish community have unfortunately and simplistically chosen to frame my individual protest as an expression of the entire Black community, indicating that interethnic conflict looms over the horizon if I do not take it down...
According to local legend, the Grand Tetons were so named by fur trappers who hadn't seen any women for the duration of their expedition. The horny men came upon the mountain range and immediately decided that the peaks on the horizon resembled "Grand Tetons"--French for "big breasts." This leads to the unfortunate incidence of women buying souvenier T-shirts which read--you guessed it--"Grand Tetons" in large letters across the chest. So much for class...