Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Teer still has that same lost expression today, but added to it is a tinge of fear. Last February he was abducted from in front of his home, held blindfolded for 24 hours and then severely beaten. His abductors thrust Teer's legs through the pickets of a wrought-iron fence to immobilize them and then proceeded to batter his limbs with steel pipes. When the ambulance arrived 20 minutes later, he was covered with blood. His left leg was broken in four places. His right leg, the shinbone sticking through the skin, was so swollen that the bars...
...knows? Maybe, in this alleged age of belatedness, of post-everything exciting, we'll reread that old essay of Emerson's ("The American Scholar"), the one which we were supposed to read four years ago before we first crossed this Yard's iron gates. And maybe we'll be persuaded by listening to that scholar who, when facing similarly recalcitrant questions and doubts, implores us, cheers us on, raises us higher, and guides us by showing us facts among appearances. Maybe, there might still be more to do. A whole lot more to do. We owe it to ourselves...
...days after Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House was abruptly closed to vehicular traffic as a caution against a truck-bomb attack, the first of two interlopers challenged the security sytem. A troubled graduate student in psychology carrying an old, unloaded pistol climbed the 8-ft.-high iron fence on the east side of the White House on Tuesday night and rushed 60 yds. across the grounds. In the struggle to subdue him, a guard fired a shot that wounded the intruder and a Secret Service agent, each in the arm. Leland Modjeski, 37, of Falls Church, Virginia...
...week. Although only 37, Potashov aged rapidly in the Gulag. "I was in Perm five years and seven months. The doctor told me I had bones like a 65-year-old man. I lost all my teeth from bad or radioactive water in the camp. I was beaten with iron rods by KGB agents; my bones were broken...
...then there is an anomaly named Mike Tyson. A TV movie about the wayward boxer's life, which airs this month on hbo, deftly portrays the former world heavyweight champion as a ruined young man devoid of the sportsman's archetypal inner drive. Witness an Iron Mike without an iron will...