Word: newfound
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sportscaster Marv, being tried in Arlington, Va., for sodomy, seems not to be benefiting from a whole lot of the newfound restraint. The New York Post and Daily News tabloids reported from the courtroom that Marv allegedly liked group sex and sometimes wore women's underwear, that his alleged victim preserved evidence of oral sex, that the same alleged victim might have tried to bribe a cab driver to give false testimony, and many other details of this signficant tale. USA Today has three stories in Wednesday's edition. The wire services are carrying family versions of the story...
...with six new freshmen on the roster and newfound confidence, these crucial early-season matchups could turn the tables for Harvard and take powerhouses like UMass and Queens by surprise...
...visit, she takes her own advice and snatches a small pleasure out of a potentially prickly situation: she fixes us iced tea and scones. Sitting in the living room of her comfortable brick house in a middle-class Washington suburb without a touch of wretched excess from her newfound wealth, she readily agrees to show me where she writes her first drafts, even though it's in bed. And anticipating my next line of questioning, she offers that indeed money does make some things easier and is a great blessing but that money "doesn't protect you from life...
...didn't rely solely on the backlash against the incumbents. Like Bill Clinton or Tony Blair with a Spanish accent, he ran a slick multimedia campaign that moved his party toward the center and reassured Mexico City's middle class that he would do nothing to interfere with its newfound prosperity. Asked after the election whether he still advocated renegotiation of the NAFTA treaty and renationalization of privatized firms, Cardenas answered that "investors shouldn't worry too much about me, because the mayor has little to do with national economic policy...
Religious lore is full of men and women whose hearts turn spontaneously toward God--legions of Pauls thrown to the ground by the power of newfound faith. But in the real world, souls have always been won retail, at tent revivals and by door-to-door evangelists. The state of the art in missionary work today is "church planting," the grafting of new congregations--often immigrant or ethnic ones--onto existing churches. No city's religious establishment has pursued church planting more passionately than St. Louis'. But the city's church-planting story carries an ambivalent message: while the outreach...