Word: skirted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bipin Shah has sued Yager for $100 million. He denies her every rant and threatens to crush her network--one that doesn't just skirt the law but defies it, taunts it, bedevils it. Children of the Underground, which Yager basically runs out of a Dunkin' Donuts shop, is her answer to courts that don't work. And it has turned hundreds of mothers into fugitives and nabbed children from fathers who don't get two minutes in their own defense...
...often watch Vili--they were concerned enough to call in a sergeant. After all, Mary was clad in a coat and T shirt but "was bare-legged below the T shirt," Tschida wrote in a report. The sergeant who arrived later reported that she was wearing a beige skirt. Regardless of this, it didn't look good, and Vili told the Globe that he and Mary had, in fact, been "close" to having sex that night...
...Alabama, the new school-prayer bill attempts to skirt those boundaries. The legislation requires "a brief period of quiet reflection for not more than 60 seconds with the participation of each pupil in the classroom." Although the courts have upheld some moment-of-silence policies, civil libertarians say they have struck down laws featuring pro-prayer supporting language of the sort they discern in Alabama's bill. In the eyes of many church-club planters, such fracases amount to wasted effort. Says Doug Clark, field director of the National Network of Youth Ministries: "Our energy is being poured into what...
...wake up late with a sinking feeling in my stomach. The night before, my roommates Ashika and Anna helped me pull together a sufficiently skimpy outfit: a tight, ice-blue spandex camisole with an equally binding short black skirt and strappy high-heeled shoes. The combination wouldn't be so bad--if it didn't make me feel naked...
...about 30 or 40 years old spring to my side, apparently from thin air. Grinning at each other like mischievous boys, they help me gather the windswept papers. One warns me, "You be careful there," and I thank them with all the dignity I can muster in a skirt that seems to be creeping higher up my thigh every minute...