Word: mined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friend of mine died Monday, January 6, 1986. He walked out the front door of his house, walked to a nearby field, and shot himself in the heart. He was only 18 and a freshman at Harvard. He was also the nicest guy in the world...
...another boy pulls that boy's foot. "Too easy," Julie shouts. "Take your risks, ladies and gentlemen. Family machines." A girl begins, "Gimme," and continues repeating the word as at the start of a roundelay. A boy chips in "No," and continues to say "No." Second boy: "It's mine." Second girl: "Will you stop whining?" Third boy: "Shut up." The family machine roars. Applause, whistles, whoops. Circle again. Julie: "Start a feeling." One: "I'm happy." Each follows with own intonation until "I'm happy" goes round once. Another: "I'm so frustrated." Another: "Why do you do this...
...young. And his mother don't exactly help either. She doesn't know how to treat kids. She talks stiff to Michael. Like when we're eating, she tells him she won't give him any food. I tell her: "Don't do that to him." I give him mine. She doesn't see what I see, you know what I mean...
...Gorbachev: "I think I'm some judge of acting, so I don't think he was acting. He, I believe, is just as sincere as we are." Two weeks after Geneva, Reagan was back to lowering expectations in a speech in Seattle: "Geneva let loose a lot of hopes, mine among them. But there have been hopeful times before...
...into narrow ravines, where they spend the day huddled under rock overhangs. The sound of a distant MiG one morning instantly silenced several hundred chattering children, as all peered skyward. Ghiday Haile, 33, sat under a rock ledge holding her four-year-old son. "Women who were friends of mine died in the attack," she recalled. "I will never again spend the sunlight hours in that camp...