Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...freak accident, the bell's red, cast-iron clapper snapped off and fell roughly 40 feet onto a lower section of the church's steeple, according to officials at Harvard Planning and Real Estate (HPRE...
...City Cemetery, still segregated in 1998. But the truth is that Jasper has progressed a great deal since pre-civil rights days, and Byrd's killing has moved things along even further. Shortly before jury selection, 75 blacks and whites met at the cemetery to cut down the wrought-iron fence that separated the two races even in death. "Give us the power and the strength through this rotten and broken fence to repair the fences in our own lives," prayed the Rev. Ron Foshage of St. Michael's Catholic Church...
...favored are to be seen in the silhouette of his body, only in the enclosing chair back. Ingres probably had a Renaissance model in mind, the portrait of Baldassare Castiglione by his adored Raphael, yet the image is as immediate, as wholly of its own time, as a cast-iron bridge...
...Antoinette's mother explains her husband's relationship to her daughter with a reference to the Bible, saying "Iron sharpeneth iron." She feels that her husband's presence has had a positive impact on her daughter. "Her stepdad has really filled in by teaching her how to have a father authority in her life," she says...
Radcliffe's decision to integrate the Bunting's unique women's world may be an indication that Harvard and Radcliffe are at long last considering the concessions required to iron out a final deal...