Word: lump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feet never touched the ground. So when she suffered a stroke last week that not only ravaged her brain but resulted in a car crash that mangled her body and seriously injured her daughter, it was almost as though some grand, cosmic accountant was exacting from her, in one lump sum, all the dues she never before had to pay. All along she had seemed exempt from the routine pains and troubles that plague the lives of ordinary folk. And then, in one swift and terrifying moment, Princess Grace fell to Earth...
...children. More than ever he believes that they are why he is in government and that they are at the heart of what this nation craves: sound individual values, family solidity, strong neighborhoods, one nation under God. At the Air Force Academy graduation in May, he got a lump in his throat. The young people were going off with unrestrained joy to serve the nation. Their parents sent them with love and deep pride. This is no corny illusion in Bush's view. It is more of America than anything else...
...Chichón volcano came abruptly to life in late March and early April after more than a century, it killed 187 people, forced thousands from their homes and created havoc over a wide area of Mexico. Since then, 3,721-ft. El Chichón (The Lump) has simmered down, giving off only occasional blasts of steamy vapor. But the mountain continues to be an object of intense scientific concern. Though the initial blowup was relatively small. El Chichón pumped so much dust and debris into the upper atmosphere-perhaps more than any other volcano since...
...those who have not been involved in "creative home financing" lately, a balloon mortgage includes a relatively low schedule of monthly payments, but then requires a large lump sum after a few years...
...away from localized religion. Many of the misconceptions about mainstream evangelism stem from a confusion of theological conservatism--the intensive concentration on the Bible as the source of religious views and sermons--with fundamentalism. Moehl says. While she is not sure of the historical origins of this tendency to lump all evangelists under a conservative label, "there are a lot of misconceptions about Southerners in general and about Southern Baptists...