Word: kernel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There is a kernel of truth in what they say, that those of us who have chosen to follow Christ...are repressing," says Johnston, who says he lived as a gay man for 11 years before renouncing his homosexuality...
...Dick dared everyone to dance with the maestro, rooting out the kernel among each of his students," Brain said...
Rimes has taken that popcorn-kernel-in-the-throat catch, married it to old-fashioned yodeling and become a crossover star. On the hit single Blue and on an Eddy Arnold duet of the venerable Cattle Call, her voice breaks with startling ease and, in a microsecond, pole-vaults from barroom belter in the low register to choir girl in the high. If there were no feeling behind it, this double-jointed vocalizing would be only a freak talent. But Rimes either knows the heartsickness behind country songs or can fake it brilliantly. There is a hint of girlishness...
...York Times' front page read "Dole Opens Drive in New Hampshire with New Theme." The article in this prime location focused on a six-sentence passage of a recent Bob Dole speech in order to explain a shift of focus in the candidate's campaign strategy. The only kernel of information being documented was Dole's acknowledgment of uneasiness among working class Americans. The rest of the article, the greater part, was devoted to reporter Richard L. Berke's analysis and speculation about what such an acknowledgment might mean in the coming weeks of the campaign...
...tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds...