Word: skunks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...returned home to Quincy House a few nights ago, I saw a large skunk scurry across Plympton Street right in front of me. It darted out the back of Hillel, ran across the pavement and disappeared under a car parked on the far curb. The skunk stopped me dead in my tracks--I figured it wouldn't attack unless provoked. But it was more than just fear of fumigation that quickened my pulse. The sight of such wildness, incongruous against the backdrop of red-brick Georgian houses, unsettled me in a way I can't completely describe. Why would...
...hate to be the skunk at the picnic--or rather, the great national celebration that attended the return of John Glenn to space. But amid all the high-fiving about how wonderful and glorious it was, we seem to have glossed over the fact that on that beautiful Thursday morning we sent the same man on the same trip he made 36 years ago. It is as if we had a great big back-slapping national jamboree at Kitty Hawk in 1939 to watch the Wright brothers skim the sand in a new biplane...
...position could motivate Inglis' socially conservative base to get out and vote, but it could also bring pro-Clinton African Americans to the polls. In any case, the race is going right to the wire, and it won't be pretty. Hollings has already called his opponent a "goddamn skunk," a "rascal" and a "reptile." The courteous Inglis has turned the outbursts into an issue; he is planning to ride across highways 26 and 85 in his trademark bright-red R.V. on what he's calling the "Expect More Tour." But South Carolinians will have to decide whether expecting more...
Leverett tutors Louis Miller and Catherine Fasbender said this will be the first year of trick-or-treating for children David, 3 and Pascale, 16 months. Pascale will be a superhero and David a skunk...
...only piece of costume we have is a skunk tail," said Catherine Fasbender, applying the finishing touches of makeup to David's face in a trial run for Saturday's big event...