Word: pond
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...initiative includes seven current groups administered under (PBHA): Newtowne Court After School Program, Mission Hill After School Program, Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment Program, Dearborn After School Program, Fresh Pond Enrichment Program, Keylatch After School Program and Chinatown After School Program...
Drega pulled the cruiser off the road near Dennis Pond in Brunswick, Vt. The cruiser was spotted by a farmer, who alerted police. As several officers approached the car at around 6 p.m., one of their police dogs sensed something up in the hills, and the dog's handler yelled, "Ambush! Hit the dirt!" Just then Drega began firing, wounding a New Hampshire state trooper in the thigh. The area was so isolated and wooded that the officers could not radio for help right away. Before backup could arrive, Drega shot a Border Patrol agent and a Vermont state trooper...
...vast sum of money," Nelson calculates. "My wife's insurance would take care of that if she died." He says this to Carl Van Ness, a stranger he has just rescued from a drowning-suicide attempt in a pond near his wife's house. Here, Nelson believes, is an answered prayer. Since Van Ness seems intent on killing himself--because he believes himself, for reasons unclear, already dead--why would he mind taking out Winona before completing the job on himself...
...image of America, at least as the nation once fancied itself: rural, righteous, ornery, stubborn in its idealism, never picking a fight and never backing away from one. To look at his scarecrow physique and the long, gawky strides, as if he were making his way across a pond by stepping on turtles' backs, you'd never guess Stewart was a movie star. But that's what helped make him one: his extraordinary ordinariness...
...calculated sincerity is almost indistinguishable from the real thing." This fellow, of course, is bent on downsizing what once was called the liberal arts. Devereaux rebels, and with TV cameras churning (dignitaries are cutting the ribbon for a grand new engineering complex), he grabs a goose from the campus pond and threatens to kill it and another like it every day until the English department gets its funding...