Word: pouring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simmering distaste for politicians and a maturing affection for the family he left behind. When his younger brother Henry is fatally wounded in a steamboat explosion, the youthful Clemens rushes to his side. He "prayed as never man prayed before," he writes his sister, "that the great God . . . would pour out the fulness of his just wrath upon my wicked head, but have mercy, mercy, mercy upon that unoffending...
...fines for serving alcohol to minors at an initiation bacchanal last February. On that occasion, 39 pledges at two of Princeton's notoriously wet eating clubs had wound up in the infirmary or the hospital after having been led, blindfolded, through a rite at which club members helped to pour liquor down their throats. One student lay in a coma for 24 hours...
...illegal drugs pour across America's borders, frustrated lawmakers ask an understandable question: Why not unleash the world's mightiest military machine to tackle the task of protecting the nation from this invasion? Thus the House earlier this month passed a wondrously simple antidrug amendment that directs the President and Secretary of Defense to "substantially halt" drug smuggling by air and sea within 45 days. The Air Force and Navy would "locate, pursue and seize" all vessels carrying drugs and "arrest their crews." The military would also provide blanket radar coverage of the entire southern border to detect nighttime flights...
...great red hills stand desolate, and the earth has torn away like flesh. The lightning flashes over them, the clouds pour down upon them, the dead streams come to life, full of the red blood of the earth. Down in the valleys women scratch the soil that is left, and the maize hardly reaches the height of a man. They are valleys of old men and old women, of mothers and children. The men are away, the young men and the girls are away. The soil will not keep them anymore...
...take-out food do not always do their own cooking. Although most ready-to-eat dishes are made in store kitchens or in large central commissaries of supermarket chains, some take-out food departments shop at other sources. They may buy ethnic specialties to supplement their own production or pour prepared soup into electrified tureens or, like Fairway in New York City, buy everything ready-made. What they offer is, in fact, retaken-out meals...