Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's the distance she traveled when she transferred from North Carolina to Harvard in 1998, a little more than a year after she and her Tar Heel team had beaten Harvard 78-53 in the first round of the 1997 NCAA tournament...
Since its media efforts began, the center has shifted its focus from year round programming against drunk driving to focusing on the holidays, when the problem is the greatest, Winsten said...
...uncivil disobedience? This vintage '60s protest fest is prompted, incongruously, by the first American gathering of the WTO, a sober, 135-nation group that sets the rules for international commerce. Thousands of trade ministers, politicians and their staffs will hunker down by Puget Sound to launch a new multiyear round of wrangling over how to promote exports--and, as much as possible, avoid one another's imports...
Society's horrified reaction has plenty of precedent as well. In Leviticus, God tells Moses: "Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you." And John Bulwer's Anthropometamorphosis, Man Transformed or, the Artificial Changeling, Historically Presented, a Puritan diatribe published in 1653, railed against disfigurement of the body in pursuit of "ridiculous beauty," "filthy fineness" and "loathesome loveliness...
...wilderness around him. Hearing that huckleberry pickers in his area have been ordered off privately owned fields, he fumes, "What becomes of the true value of country life--what, if you must go to market for it? It has come to this, that the butcher now brings round our huckleberries in his cart...