Word: scar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smaller, make it smaller." Jackson has said it was the painful after-effects of scalp surgery that started him on his addiction to drugs. One source has told TIME Jackson may have abused prescribed Demerol, a narcotic the singer first used when he was receiving steroid treatments to soften scar tissue...
Doug floors his Ford truck through a yellow light, turns sharply and then slows, carefully checking out the other cars as he cruises the largely white working-class neighborhoods of Benson. He points to a light blue, wood-frame house. Dozens of pellet holes from two shotgun blasts scar the wall on either side of the front door. In the driveway, an elderly man tinkers with a blue Chevy Caprice, which is also riddled with holes. Doug drives by slowly, confident he won't be recognized. "We did that three months ago. Monday night about...
...bills he introduces, the speeches he gives and the Executive Orders he signs, a President is defined by the small acts at the margin that burn themselves into the national consciousness: Jimmy Carter with his killer rabbit and lust in his heart, Lyndon Johnson displaying his surgical scar, Richard Nixon strolling on the beach in his wing tips. In years to come, the biggest small thing of the Clinton presidency may turn out to be The $5,500 Haircut...
Hernandez- Pol now has a scar on that finger. He says the next time he needed care he went to Massachusetts General Hospital...
Artyom points to the by-product of a negotiation gone bad, a gnarled red scar just above his left eye. Late one night last November, two young men flagged him down. They didn't like his asking price. After an exchange of * insults, the three spilled out brawling onto the sidewalk. At 6 ft. 3 in. and 211 lbs., Artyom wasn't worried. But he never saw the knife, never felt the blow and never realized he had been stabbed until the blood had flowed down his shirt sleeve...