Word: oak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There's the sugary, quickie cool you get from eating a Popsicle under a hot noontime sun. It's tasty and sharp, but it lasts only a few licks. Then there's the other kind of cool, the kind you get from resting in the shadow of a big oak tree on a summer day. That kind reaches down to your bones, and it even touches your soul: that old oak tree is noble and enduring...
Johnny Cash is oak-tree cool. The 62-year-old singer and songwriter has sold more than 50 million albums in 40 years. His signature songs -- I Walk the Line, Ring of Fire -- are classics. Despite his achievements, though, the past few years have been hard for Cash, and he has needed all his cool to persevere. His albums have sold poorly, and with the rise of young, easy- listening stars like Billy Ray Cyrus, record companies have lost interest in people like Cash. But now Cash has a label that's committed to him, and he has made...
...Cash, welcome to Kansas City!" Then there was Dave Sheridan, a college student who attended a Cash concert in Columbia, Missouri, last week: "I'm hooked. Good music is good music," he said. "This guy's been around 40 years. That's the test." That old oak is still standing, more noble than ever...
...Balt. 4, Oak...
...lacks the drama of electrocuting someone. One of the region's biggest tourist draws is Old Sparky, the original death chair, which sits behind glass at the Texas Prison Museum four blocks from the Big House. Visitors from around the world come to gawk and marvel at the gleaming oak contraption where 361 killers met their fate from...