Word: mile
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fast as possible," said Cecilda, fingering a scar on his left leg where he cut himself on the barbed wire. "Now we're stuck here, and all we can do is think about our families that we left behind." Two men have drowned during the one-mile swim. The picturesque inlet where their bodies were found is known as Dead Man's Cove. Another man trying to walk across the border was killed when he stepped on a land mine. Cecilda was returned to a small camp called November, which the Americans have actually moved closer to the Cuban border...
...Canadian businessman the go-ahead to drill for what could be one of Europe's largest onshore oil deposits -- right on the grounds of her cherished Windsor Castle. The would-be driller, Canuk Exploration Ltd. director Desmond Oswald, promised yesterday that the exploratory drilling will be a half-mile distant from the queen's ancestral home and won't mar her view of the family parkland. He didn't precisely address what would happen if the hoped-for 100 million barrels of oil starts gushing out. "I don't believe you can get 100 million barrels of oil just through...
Sophomore Ailey Penningroth won both the weight throw and the shotput events. And sophomore Karen Goetze ran an outstanding 5:01 in the mile...
...These symptoms could be common in any age group," the physician said. "The list of conditions that fit the symptoms of exhaustion and fatigue is a mile long...
...furor over Proposition 187, however, has obscured an anti- immigration campaign that may have just as much impact, but far sooner. Attorney General Janet Reno has decided to try to virtually seal off the 2,076-mile border with Mexico to illegal crossers. The U.S. Border Patrol has long maintained it could accomplish this if given a chance, but the patrol has always been underfunded and understaffed...