Word: sinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minds off their losses. "All we can do is sandbag," said John Boerding, 50, who figured that more than half his 2,000-acre crop of soybeans, corn and wheat in St. Charles County had already been destroyed by late last week, and was worried that his home would sink as well. "What else can we do? Most people in this area don't even have flood insurance." But even if there are no outbreaks of disease because of the filth in the waters, the Midwest will shortly be suffering one of the world's worst collective backaches from...
...blurred blaze of wintry light is actually a reflection in the mirror, the sense of spatial enigma drops away. You are left with a plain rendition in rather liquid paint of a girl in a red cardigan and an artist in a mustard- colored shirt. The Velazquez references sink back, as they are meant to do, into the matrix of observed reality...
...street again," says Martha. "We thought that was the problem. But he was doing strange things. We were in the kitchen one day, and I was telling him he had to make his adjustment and start looking for a job. He started throwing water on me from the sink. Me and Bobby was too close for him to treat me that...
...when we sink our teeth into the meat of this article we discover that Mr. Frank's journalistic jabberwocky is not only mostly gristle but barely half-baked! All this in an article deemed a "news analysis." Unfortunately, Mr. Frank's rhetorical and seemingly gratuitous deployment of Mr. Burke's HIV-infected body as the "source" of possible communal corruption is nothing but old news...
...imagine a hundred Vietnam Memorials arrayed on the Mall. The earth would sink beneath the weight of such sorrow. Yet it would take that many Vietnam Memorials to list the names of those killed in the Holocaust. And it would still not be enough. There would still be nearly 200,000 left uncommemorated, more than have died of AIDS in America in all the years of the plague...