Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BOSTON--Chill out, Madonna and Janet Jackson. Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is catching heavy play on rock 'n' roll radio these days...
...There is no fistfighting anymore," complained a frightened neighbor of one of the victims. "If they have a confrontation, they go get their guns." Mayor David Dinkins vowed that his city "would not roll over" to the killers. But at week's end 14-year-old Shamel Knight was gunned down in a dispute over a moped...
...medium-size ships of the Joint Task Force * Middle East, based on the island of Bahrain. The aircraft carrier Independence is steaming toward a station off the Straits of Hormuz, and the carrier Saratoga will join the Eisenhower in the Mediterranean, but they would be hard pressed to roll back Iraq's army...
...City in Mormon country. Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em is one of the few albums since Thriller to hold the No. 1 in Billboard -- No. 1 pop, No. 1 black album at the same time. It's the biggest selling album of this year, bar any -- rock 'n' roll, pop, blues, toe tappin', whatever it is. We went out and sold 5 million albums in four months. Twelve weeks at No. 1 on the R.-and-B. charts, nine weeks at No. 1 on the pop side -- ahead of New Kids on the Block and Madonna...
...clowning around, even at the advanced level, keeps scholars fresh and interested. Students stage ridiculous dining-hall skits in their new languages and prove that you can't be self-conscious speaking Spanish while dressed like half an elephant. Everyone sings almost without stop: nonsense songs; protest songs; "rocken roll," as they say in Norway; and anthems celebrating a "world without walls," which has been the villages' global theme since the dismantling of the Berlin Wall. Songs not only are fun but also teach word patterns that are hard to forget...