Word: saws
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Star-Spangled Banner is faded and deteriorating. Other stops ranged from the New Jersey laboratory where Thomas Edison came up with more than half of his 1,093 patented inventions, and where 5 million documents, including lab notes and letters, are rotting, to a Pittsfield theater that once saw performances by Sarah Bernhardt and John Philip Sousa but now houses a funky paint store...
...tour was Hillary's most public moment since last January, when scandal enveloped the White House and the nation saw a darkly defiant First Lady rising to her husband's defense against a "vast, right-wing conspiracy." The reception she received last week confirmed what the polls are showing: that her popularity is near its all-time high, with approval ratings almost equaling those of the President...
...Clinton's side at virtually every moment of the Bosnia trip: Secret Service special agent Larry Cockell, the President's bodyguard. After a series of courtroom victories that largely swept away the notion of a "protective privilege" shielding Secret Service agents from having to testify about what they saw or heard while on duty, Starr is free to ask Cockell if he knows anything that contradicts the President's testimony. Cockell is expected to go before Starr's grand jury this week. Starr is particularly interested in any contact Clinton may have had with Lewinsky and Jordan at the time...
...then, we are strong; we are rich. But even if there are harder decades ahead, maybe we'll look back on this as one of those moments when we were good--good enough to have American heroes, power heroes. We'll tell our children's children, "I saw it with my own eyes when he smashed that ball outta the park, into the street!" That was when God loved America and its game--and sent Big Mac and Junior to prove...
...biggest Jose Jimenez fan you ever saw? Alan Shepard, (not to be confused with Sam Shepard, who plays a great Yeager in this one) and you're looking at him. Scott Glenn does the old pioneer justice in all his guts, grace and flinty humor. From his lips we get one of space's first slogans -- "everything is AOK" -- and some lesser-known launchpad gems, namely "Dear Lord, please don't let me f--- this...