Word: rawe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overheard phone conversation: "Heard you had a son/ Don't remember his name/ That's a really nice name/ I just called/ To check and see/ If my memory's correct/ And you mean a thing to me." The song sounds so heartfelt it almost seems raw, and it's not hard to figure why. "You know," Baerwald says, "two days before I started making Bedtime Stories, I was living in a nice house in the suburbs with a woman I deeply loved. The day I started, I was living in a motel in Compton." He may have changed...
...struggled to master English, and both now speak it fluently, with a dry, self- belittling wit. Both love all manner of sports: Lendl is a fiend for golf and hockey, while Navratilova is enchanted with skiing, basketball and, as a spectator, American football. Both rose to the top through raw physical power, and both have seen the game evolve so much, in terms of their opponents' fitness and sheer anatomical size, that each now relies more on cunning and finesse. Both have probably earned less in endorsement contracts than their achievements merited: Navratilova's bisexuality makes advertisers nervous, while Lendl...
...scores of communities are imperiled, relief measures are necessary. In the case of the Northwest, the Federal Government should help retrain loggers and millworkers and provide towns with grants to spur economic diversification. Congress could also help sustain the Northwest's processing mills by passing legislation aimed at reducing raw-log exports...
...Kham and the nurse have to tie Rahmat Hussain's wrists to the bedpost with strips of gauze to keep him from reaching down while they remove the bandages. All the skin has been torn from Rahmat Hussain's inner thighs and groin to his stomach, and the pink, raw flesh forms a vast inverted horseshoe two inches deep -- as if he had mounted a burning saddle that seared deep into his body. He was injured during an attack in a village called , Allishir, in the Khost province. The mujahedin were advancing, and the man next to Rahmat Hussain stepped...
...three-month training course at the Manerplaw headquarters was speeded up to five weeks last year. On this soggy summer day, more than 100 youths are in training, most of them between ages 16 and 18. But more than a dozen are no older than 14. All are very raw recruits, children of farmers, sent to the army because it is their duty -- and also because the army provides clothes and two meals...