Word: saws
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...straw was what Hussein called Hassan's meddling in the Jordanian armed forces. In his dismissal letter, he disclosed that his brother had moved to fire Jordan's Chief of Staff on false corruption charges related to the construction of an opulent new home. Palace sources say that Hussein saw the move, at worst, as the beginning of a coup attempt...
Suddenly the Pope was neither remote nor abstract; he was in Betty's bedroom. "For the first year and a half after Ed and I were married in 1970, we were not in a position to have any children," she says. "I saw Paul VI as representative of a very conservative Vatican. Obviously these people weren't out in the trenches." Like many American Catholics, Betty and Ed embraced a concept extolled by liberal American clerics: "We heard, 'a matter of conscience,'" she says, "and we declared birth control to be one. We would decide it according...
...longer advocate the "turn your cookie off" solution to Web browsing. Cookies--data strings in your browser that identify you--can be used to determine when you last visited a website and what you saw there. Unfortunately, if you disable them (through your browser's preferences menu) you can't get into websites that require cookies. And if you opt for the middle ground--warn me if anyone wants my cookie--you end up going crazy since many sites request them dozens of times. Fortunately, there's Anonymizer...
...with a thousand oddments and curios he collected along the way--such as remarks by Charles Kingsley, the Cambridge University historian who served as chaplain to Queen Victoria. Kingsley, visiting Ireland in the 1840s, described the Irish as a biological subspecies: "I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred miles of horrible country." It is Phillips' larger thesis that all the English-speaking peoples, including the Kingsleys, have evolved admirably since those times...
...Congressman from Clinton's district, Jay Dickey, completely screwed up the Shoeless Joe Jackson anecdote during the impeachment debate? I nearly called in to Larry King." I begin to sniffle. "I phoned an all-news radio station as an eyewitness to a high-rise fire...and then I saw three guys arguing on a corner, and I interrupted them by shouting, 'We'll be right back; we'll be right back!' I don't know if I'm going to make...