Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over too soon to be judged. The U.S. military's redemption had to wait until the Gulf War in 1991--at last, another good war. National interests--oil and gas--were at stake, and so were values. Again, the enemy was a mustache-wearing dictator who had invaded his neighbor. A fair number of Americans were hesitant, but the morale-boosting triumph came quickly, with few casualties among the troops--all of whom were tough, highly trained professionals...
...inspectors advised. Within two hours, the Ragsdales and two dozen friends started filing in and out of the house like ants, loading a truck with the couple's possessions. A short time later, the Ragsdales were forced to demolish their house so that it would not slide into their neighbor's below...
Instead of watching our professors, some of us are critiquing our neighbor's thighs. Instead of talking in section, some of us are counting calories. Hands turn orange, laxatives get consumed, hours get lost hunched over a StairMaster. Some of us can't even eat our own birthday cake...
Winfrey's mother took on a second job so her precocious son could explore his penchant for music, taking piano and later organ lessons. Winfrey went on to play for the Liberty Baptist Church, a neighbor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Ebenezer Baptist Church...
Canada has been harboring a grudge since 1966, when the two teams last met and the U.S. shocked its northern neighbor by winning the World Cup. Canadians began to rethink their national plan (More funding? A youth movement? Abandon NAFTA?), but what really upset them was learning that hardly anyone in the U.S. even knew about the contest. It's one thing to import Canadian NHL teams to southern U.S. cities, steal SCTV guys for SNL, infringe on fishing rights, but to beat them at their own sport? This could get ugly...