Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...embarrassing to Harvard because it showsyou cannot predict behavior," said Jack B.Swerling, Grant's defense attorney during hermurder trial in 1990. "There are people among useveryday who are capable of acting out violence.Anyone involved in domestic killings knows thatany violence acted out is solely against theabuser. Those people are not a threat to anyoneelse...
...painfully memorable day this spring Jack Reese did a crazy dance in the middle of a persimmon grove on his farm in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. Flailing wildly, he tried to yank off his pants and swat his ankles at the same time. He had made one of the worst mistakes a Southern farmer can make: he forgot to watch the ground for a moment and thus tromped on a foot-high mound full of fire ants. Incensed by the intrusion, the insects promptly swarmed up Reese's legs, stinging him mercilessly over and over again. It felt like dozens...
...head and eventually sever the head from the body. Best of all, the fly seems to attack only fire ants. If laboratory and field tests show that the fly is indeed safe to use, says Patterson, the natural ant killer could be available within a year -- and Jack Reese will no longer have to be so careful about where he steps...
...Jack McClintock, a free-lance writer from Miami, understands that motive well. Every afternoon he takes his craving for caffeine and company, along with an unfinished manuscript, to the new Borders in the city's north end. "Bookshops with coffee bars are unlike restaurants, where you can't move around, and libraries, where you can't talk," he explains. Notes Ted Marrone, a Denver superstore habitua: "You can't find a better buy in entertainment." Geoffrey Richards, a Chicago law student, also heads for his neighborhood Borders with more than John Grisham novels on his mind. "Maybe you spot someone...
...script was finally right and so was today's pretty location, through which an aged Francesca was supposed to wander distraught (she has just learned that her long-ago three-day lover has died). As Eastwood ambled over to discuss the day's first shot with his longtime cinematographer, Jack Green, he was heard to murmur, "Great, they'll put me on the cover of Cahiers du Cinama...