Word: letting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TENNESSEE Legislators ax a bill that would have let faculty members arm themselves on campus but passes a bill to ban gun suits...
...train Walters took to work. They were mysterious. They bore the name of no known ministry but merely the words Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation and an 800 number for ordering a free booklet. "I kept seeing it and seeing it," Walters says. "And one day I just thought, O.K., let me check it out." She did so, she acknowledged later when quizzed about the book's impact on her, partly because she had been feeling a bit distant from God. And partly out of curiosity. "I was thinking, What's the gimmick? There's always a gimmick...
Callie's biological parents, Whitney Rogers and Kevin Chittum, were killed in a traffic accident on July 4, 1998, just days before they would have learned of the switch. And in mourning the young parents, there had been some hope that Callie and Becca's accidentally conjoined clans could let the girls share their lives together. A month after the deaths, the Chittums and the Rogerses, who share the care of Rebecca, and Johnson met and seemed to get along. The girls went swimming together in a family pool. Then Callie spent a week visiting Becca's extended family...
...already without having seen it. But Brown has created something that shouts READ ME, if only because it's much more raw and immediate than anything else on the stands with such an arty sheen and mainstream aspirations. She's foraged for voices outside the media hothouse and let them vent as if they were at a dinner party (or logged on to e-mail). Physically, the magazine owes its effect to European large-format glossies like Paris-Match and Stern. A run through its pages is like watching a moving picture of short and long takes, dense alongside superficial...
...play the reluctant warrior. His shock troops were made up of three befuddled senior citizens who swooshed around the ballroom wearing GARGAN'S GEEZERS T shirts. He compared the chairmanship to captaining the Titanic. "I don't want the damned job," he said. "But I'm not about to let this ship go down." Proof that he was a hard worker? He used to drive live chickens to market, a job that meant stopping every few minutes and beating the sides of the truck to keep the birds flapping and alive. During his speech, he listed his credentials as loving...