Word: saving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paddled like a man for 10 whole minutes, and then got tired. The rest is history: a wave knocked the canoe over, we went flying into the water, and two guys paddled over to save...
...seen as the girl next door, like Schaeffer and Saldana, will attract fans who are potentially more dangerous. Those who kill "may feel that they are going to be united in heaven, or that the person is being taken over by devils and that they're going to save them from a worse punishment," explains Janet Warren, a professor of behavioral medicine at the University of Virginia, who worked on the Justice study...
...Guskin either had no larger vision of the play or could not express it. The performances clash in tone and degenerate into monologues and star turns, all but devoid of emotional connection save in the first tender flirtation between Pfeiffer and the disguised Mastrantonio. By far the worst offender is Goldblum, who seemingly has no clue about his character. In a blatant pitch for cheap laughs, he relies on grimaces and gestures from The Fly, topping them off with a pantomime of catching and eating some insect. At best the show skitters along the surface of a script rich...
...availability of guns can make a difference. She had been undergoing therapy for recurring depression. Despite a comfortable income, the 63-year-old divorcee was so afraid of poverty that she twice tried to kill herself with pills. Each time, her family discovered her soon enough to save her. But on Saturday morning, May 6, she found a swift and certain alternative. She went to a shopping center and bought a handgun. Since Berliner knew nothing about weapons, the salesclerk loaded the pistol for her. She took the gun home and shot herself. At that point, there was no time...
...Manichaean battle in which compromise was impossible. A generation of social-issue conservatives was politicized and mobilized. As a result, today's Republican Party officially endorses a human-life amendment that would not merely return the abortion issue to the states but would constitutionally ban abortion except to save the mother's life...