Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...girlfriend," Jones says, "but I know he had sex with girls, and he'd always doodle in his notepad and make these naked women." Jones remembers something odd, though, about Stayner's reaction to women who didn't live in his notepad world. "We'd go swimming up there, pull up and see a bunch of women swimming naked, and I was down that hill pulling my clothes off, and Cary was hanging back. I'd have to say, Come on, what are you doing...
...Cronin, the impulse for his lifework came from family history. "I was raised along the river," he says. "I was in the first generation that was taught the river was unsafe--not because of tides that might pull you down but because of water quality. As a young adult, I found a legacy I had been kept from inheriting. The lives of my family had swirled around the river; my grandfather was a fisherman; that's where families gathered. I discovered that connection. But then there was a larger connection. It seemed that every community on the river had lost...
...checking with the other," said a board member of Harvard's Kennedy School. Jackie sheltered them from the garish glare. "I don't want my children to live here anymore," she said in anguish after Bobby's assassination, fearing America's violence. She was also wary of the immense pull of the hyperactive clan and the demons that came with it. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin told Jackie at Caroline's wedding how striking the closeness between her two children was, and Jackie said, "It's the best thing I've ever done...
...rolls in and out. I could save one roll for impromptu pics, then switch to a fresh one for parties or vacations. But the viewfinder was noticeably dull, actually discouraging me from taking shots. Minolta's silvery Vectis 2000 was the lightest of the trio and has a slick pull-open case. But it didn't seem so slick when I had to slap a piece of Scotch tape on the battery compartment to keep it from popping open. And the hatch marks that showed up on the edges of the viewfinder when I switched to classic or panoramic views...
...tick to make it back out. Apart from scorching yourself, you'll just provoke it into regurgitating its potentially toxic baggage into your body. Instead, take a pair of tweezers, line them up alongside the tick's body and as close to your skin as you can and gently pull out the tick. Be sure not to squeeze or crush the tick, as that can force its insides into your body as well. After the tick is out, wash the area of the bite with antiseptic, and place the tick in a plastic container marked with the date in case...