Word: raring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they sing the song of summer in Philadelphia, they aren't kidding. Across much of the U.S. these days, summer school is in great demand for kids who flunk standardized tests and must either pull up their scores or repeat a grade. But summer school costs money, and with rare exceptions over the past 10 years, Philly's public schools haven...
...asked on a television show what he would have done with his life, given a choice. After an awkward pause--a rare thing, indeed--he admitted he couldn't think of anything other than boxing. That is all he had ever wanted or wished for. He couldn't imagine anything else. He defended boxing as a sport: "You don't have to be hit in boxing. People don't understand that...
Diana not only married into the British monarchy but was the offspring of a family, the Spencers, that is at least as old as the British royal family and considers itself in some ways to be rather grander. It is not rare in England to hear the Spencers' Englishness compared favorably with the "foreign" (German) background of the Windsors. The famous speech, given by Diana's younger brother, the Earl of Spencer, at her funeral in London, with its barely contained hostility toward his royal in-laws, moved many people at the time but was in fact an exercise...
...number of rapes and attempted rapes remained steady--in the first quarter of 1999 five rapes were reported and all led to convictions. Stranger-on-stranger rapes were rare...
...number of rapes and attempted rapes remained steady--in the first quarter of 1999 five rapes were reported and all led to convictions. Stranger-on-stranger rapes were rare...