Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a temper too. I stifle an impulse to fire back what W.C. Fields called "an evasive answer." Instead I pause and let the adrenaline subside; I roll my eyes to the ceiling and raise my open palms, priestlike: Peace...
...more than just behold. Those who have been inside the Simpson courtroom note how lawyers have learned to turn their back to the camera when exchanging jokes and smirks. And though joking persists even after Judge Lance Ito enters the chamber, solemnity rules once the camera begins to roll. Even home viewers perceive the impact as they monitor Marcia Clark's Di-like makeover, with hair that's gone from shaggy mane to Madison Avenue sleek and a once frumpy wardrobe that now rivals Grace Van Owen...
...them use the phone and a bathroom, something that a UPS driver wouldn't ordinarily do. This accomplished, they then moved on to the compound itself to try the same plan again. This time, Koresh and another member, David Jones, met them at the gate. Jones was carrying a roll of toilet paper...
...late April the Corporation the more powerfulof Harvard's two governing bodies rejected thefaculty's request to roll back the one percentreduction although it did approve the compromiseof a "soft...
...balanced budget requirement on U.S. social programs. Given the public's exaggerated antipathy towards taxes, the imperative to balance the budget will cripple liberal constituencies across the board. Such a constitutional amendment is designed to cloak the discretionary in the guise of the necessary, to justify otherwise indefensible roll-backs of governmental responsibility. And it provides cover for changing even more rules of the political process in order to guarantee continued Republican ascendancy...