Word: sit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only the second time he had been on the bench this season. He had too much energy, too much enthusiasm, to sit on the sidelines. Bonnie wanted to play...
...Operation Rescue spokesperson said that the protestors will "peacefully sit down and block the way to the killing centers," adding that the group's protestors are all required to attend "non-violent training sessions before demonstrations at the killing centers...
...often seems closer in spirit to Roger Rabbit than Rambo, his mantra was the adjective tough. Whether it was tackling the "tough choices" on domestic spending or the "tough and difficult decisions" on Pentagon weapons, Dukakis used the word to portray himself as possessing the macho fiber to sit in the Oval Office...
...expectations. Perhaps the single most striking statement to emerge during the campaign was the call by Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party and the eventual victor, for honest voting and an honest count. Not exactly the kind of statement that would make people sit up and rub their eyes during an American campaign. Americans expect it; Mexicans are surprised...
...land remains flat on both sides of the river beyond Matamoros. The first small hills rise in Starr County, west of McAllen, Texas. The moon darts in and out of clouds driven by a strong wind as Border Patrol officers Leo Laurel and Juan Trevino sit in the blacked-out cab of their Chevrolet Suburban. "They choose their sheriffs and deputies by the pound around here," jokes Trevino when asked why the police do not make more drug busts in one of the most important marijuana and cocaine importation routes in the country. "If an officer doesn't grab...