Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first seven or eight minutes, it was really a three-ring circus," said an irritated DeVore...
...maybe one disruption in the past, but nothing like this three-ring circus," said DeVore...
...PHRASE "STATUTORY RAPE" HAS always had a ring of unreality to it--something associated with Roman Polanski or former Congressman Mel Reynolds, but hardly a crime to keep one awake at night worrying. Yet the fact is that 60% of the babies born to unwed teenage mothers in the U.S. are fathered by adult males, many of whom do not stick around to support these infants. In California, which has the highest teen-pregnancy rate in the country and which pays out between $5 billion and $7 billion annually in state and federal aid to families begun by teens, Governor...
...recent cry to "Save the Union" just doesn't have the same ring as it did in 1861. This new, dignified civil war has arisen at the outcry of a handful of alumni, led by Tweed Roosevelt '64, over the proposed renovations to the Great Hall of the Freshman Union. Though their concern is well-intentioned, the alumni's ominous prediction of architectural destruction is both hyperbolic and misguided...
...scientists started casting about for cheaper off-the-shelf compounds that had characteristics similar to their rather expensive sorbitol construct. They eventually came up with sucrose polyester, a class of compounds that sports as many as eight fatty acids crowded around alcohol groups that hang, in turn, off a ring of sucrose molecules. By contrast, the naturally occurring fats known as triglycerides include just three fatty acids...