Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much practice did it take to plan a human sacrifice? How many mornings had the killers sat outside that federal building, making judgments about where and when to park their bomb, which recipe to use, how to make sure that the full force of the blast hit the building square in its belly? And when the day finally came, the truck loaded and the time set, did they wait and watch the children go in, hand in hand with their parents, before they drove away...
...friends was disappointed in me for jumping enthusiastically into baseball so quickly after the strike. He agreed with a fan walking outside Fenway Park yesterday who tried to give Red Sox fans a guilt trip with his sign that chided, "How quickly we forget." How could I, as a self-respecting individual, crawl back to my unfaithful baseball lover without so much as even one day of a boycott...
...working their magic on my soul, the Sox were back Wednesday in full glory. Sitting in intimate Fenway Park, I felt connected with the father who took his two sons out of school to see the game, with the army vet waiting in line for pizza, even with the drunk guy three rows behind me who heckled opposing pitcher Scott Erickson ("They got you shaking in your boots, Scowtie!"). We all cheered in unison...
...close to Cochran Park, near Fresh Pond, there is a housing project for low-middle income families, according to Captain Pasquale J. DeMaio of the Engine 9 Fire Department on Lexington...
...Wolf Fund, a tiny activist group set up in 1986 by wildlife biologist Renee Askins, 27, declared victory, gave a few cheers and disbanded. Askins had moved to Moose, Wyoming, in 1981 with the idea of helping get gray wolves re-established in Yellowstone National Park. The process, she thought, might take two or three years. It took a decade more than that of gentle persuasion, spit-flying argument, rear-guard lawsuits by wolf opponents, and 83 public hearings, "alternative-scoping open houses" and the like conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. But in early April, three widely...