Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suicidal when I met him. He took his own life because he could not control the changes that he so desperately wanted to make. Lopez twisted my bittersweet memories of Johnny and falsely implied that I stood by callously as he ended his life. I was not present when Johnny committed suicide, and I certainly never, ever spoke of him as a monster...
Harry James must have sensed it too, because he had hired Sinatra, then a scrawny spoiler in his mid-20s, to sing with the band. Present at the creation, James could not have read the signs. The title of an early Sinatra-James hit was one of those anthemic declarations of defiance that, over the years and through the decades, was to form the Sinatra autobiography: All or Nothing...
...friend and asks, "Which is?" The reply: "Which is coming here and God gives you a mission. To Christians like your good self, only crazy ones." Lucas later meets Obermann and accompanies him on his rounds with his hospitalized patients: "They met some famous figures from Scripture. Noah was present, glancing uneasily at the smoggy sky. Samson, unbound but closely supervised in a room of his own, sneered at Lucas's philistine lack of conditioning...
...Joanne McAvoy of Alexandria, Va., traded in 130,000 Club Rewards points to give their son Michael, 13, a unique birthday present. In August he will take part in a special five-day space-camp program sponsored by NASA. At one point, he will be put behind the controls of a small two-person propeller plane for 30 minutes and will receive credit toward a private pilot's license. "Our son wants to be a pilot someday, and he is just so excited about taking part in this," says Joanne McAvoy. "I never would have thought you could do something...
Psst! Want to make an easy 200 bucks? If you are a university professor specializing in business, math or computer science and are about to present your research paper at an academic conference, Microsoft will slip you a check for $200 to cover "travel costs." All you have to do is mention how Microsoft programs helped you in your work. The offer is part of a promotional program called "The Academic Cooperative," which maintains its own web site on the Internet. The web site, which runs on the Idaho State University server, makes no overt mention of Microsoft...