Word: slid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alexandra M. Molnar '96 was walking home Monday afternoon when an eight-inch chunk of ice and snow slid from the roof of Boylston Hall and fell on her head...
...casual prep values comfort. He wears afaded flannel dress Campbell shirt and jeansgingerly slid below his waist. Of course, he's gotthe overstretched sweater naturally peppered withholes (Don't use scissors. It's too obvious).Then, there's the white Syracuse lax baseball capcocked at a rakish angle and suede moccasins worndown (absolutely no socks). Accessories: wovenstring bracelets, beer pong paddle sticking out ofback pocket...
...would never have the trust of the Somalis, given their colonial histories in the region. The U.N. is even more despised. In the eyes of most Somalis, U.N. aid programs helped sustain the dictatorial government of Mohammed Siad Barre, who was deposed in January 1991. Then, as the country slid into civil war, the U.N. declined to act. As anarchy and starvation accelerated, the U.N. agencies were conspicuously absent...
...years ago, in another quarter of town, he cornered a drug dealer, only to discover it was a baby-face 11-year-old boy. The child had a gun. Earl slid his own service revolver back into the holster, hoping to defuse the tension and thinking of his own son that age. After a few words, the child pulled the trigger, and a .32-caliber slug ripped through Earl's groin, coming to rest between the muscle and spine. Earl returned a single shot. The boy fell dead. "After I shot the kid, I rocked him in my arms," says...
Halfway down the hill, though, I somehow began to. After zigzagging slowly down the top half of the slope, I picked up speed as my group slid closer and closer to the bottom of the hill. Again and again I jammed my poles in the snow and pushed off with every erg of energy my sunken pectorals and triceps could produce. My nose, exposed, throbbed, but I didn't care because I was in motion...