Word: sinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Irish-American Towne clan, permits herself a few sentimental tears. But when the party ends, Momma reminds the Roman Catholic celebrators that they have been "dancing on graves." Four days later, there will be a fresh grave to dig -- that of May, the autumn bride -- and the family will sink back into the regret and loss that threaten to smother three generations of Townes...
...restrictions sink the concert as awhole," said Vu. "The only thing we can do is goabove him. It's not a choice between having aconcert with restrictions and having a concertwithout restrictions. It's a choice between havinga concert and not having a concert...
...front page is put together. And third, we need to offer real science courses to the non-science student. Most hard scientists tend to belittle non-majors, assuming them to be cognitively inferior. The teachers keep on doing what they're trained to do, expecting the non-majors to sink or swim...
...course, the Dems would have to balance the ticket. Janis Joplin would fit the bill nicely. Or maybe Itzhak Perlman. An Elvis-Joplin (or even Elvis-Cuomo) ticket would galvanize the electorate as never before. Will past drug use sink the nominees? Chalk it up to youthful indiscretion, as President Bush did when explaining away Clarence Thomas' joint ventures...
...year 2000 could very well open a second American Century, given a major, national effort of will. Absent that, it could also be the beginning of the end of the U.S. as a significant power, and we could (to vary what Beyond the Fringe once said about Britain) sink, not giggling but grumbling, into the sea. The outcome...