Word: men
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Darrell told a Christian group in Little Rock in November. "God is using Rachel as a vehicle. If I believed for one second that God had forsaken my daughter or that he had gone to sleep or that he wasn't aware, I would be one of the angriest men in America...
...guru is a handsome, 40-year-old Highlander named Alasdair MacRae, widely regarded as the most dangerous of all "dangerous men"--the insider's term for virtuoso sheepdog handlers. The son of a tenant farmer, MacRae is a newfangled sort of celebrity. In centuries past, those who handled sheepdogs were known as shepherds, and their occupation was so humble that many fled to America to escape it. These days, however, competitive sheepherding ranks among the fastest-growing outdoor sports in the U.S. Fifteen years ago, perhaps a dozen sheepdog trials were held each year; now there are more than...
...AHAB'S WIFE by Sena Jeter Naslund. While Melville's men were hasing whales in Moby Dick, what were the women up to? This novel's spirited heroine tells all and debunks the notion that 19th century American women were as "sweet and resigned" as Melville assumed...
...your map showing how people around the world will spend New Year's Eve [LIVING, Nov. 29], you suggested that Yanomami tribe members in Roraima, Brazil, will probably ignore the millennium and go to bed early. But at midnight the men will in all likelihood be wide awake, huddling over their campfires and talking about life, just as they do every night. A tribal leader may explain what will be going on in other parts of the world on this night. The men will stand in awe trying to fathom this--for all of three minutes, after which they...
...DeAngelis remains frustrated. Sometimes he thinks about the final conversation he had with Dave Sanders, the teacher killed April 20. Both men had been coaches. They had been to each other's wedding, had kids around the same age. On April 19 they sat together at a baseball game, and their how-are-you chat turned more contemplative: the long hours they spent, the many challenges of working with teenagers--"Is all the time worth it?" they wondered. They both said yes then. And DeAngelis says...