Word: powdering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Powder Grimbley Leitch...
SSAWS is also much better kept. The 1,607-ft. slopes are routinely groomed to take out moguls and ice spots that might send skiers crashing into the wall. Every night workers lay down a fine layer of fresh powder. "The quality of the snow is incredibly good here," says Mihoko Ehara, 24, a waitress. "But because it is so good, I think that if you skied here too often you might lose touch." Still, unlike Seagaia, SSAWS really has little to offer apart from snow. The skiing is fine for the first few runs -- and is especially surreal...
...spectacle of Myers trying to defend the White House's farcical attempt to turn a female TV reporter into a presidential makeup artist during a Clinton visit to New Hampshire. Why had a White House staff member asked the local journalist, who was about to interview the President, to powder Clinton's nose? Because, Myers said, no one else was available...
...facile response to my kind of critique is, "Show us a better solution." Such a response assumes that bombing our way toward human rights is a solution. It is not, especially in a powder keg like the Balkans...
...facial wounds came from police batons, Koon testified, "Mr. King fell like a tree. He made a one-point landing on his face." Dr. Harry Smith of San Antonio, Texas, a leading expert witness, asserted this scenario was impossible. The bones beneath King's right eye were crushed to powder, which required a pressure equivalent to 350 lbs., while his nose, which would have been broken by pressure of about 50 lbs., remained intact. Such uneven damage could not come from a flat surface like a parking lot, said Smith, only from something selective, like a baton...