Word: sodded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bold, elite haze 2) Damp old runt 3) Sod! I'm rum nerd 4) Legal bits 5) Postulate huge ignorance 6) Oh my God! I rail up urinal...
...wrangling of Sweeney, Bill Clinton and Gore himself, 2.2 million of Gore?s 13 million new friends are sending just that message. The Teamsters (evidently, a presidential photo-op doesn?t hold the charm it once did) and the United Auto Workers both dissented, calling Sweeney?s dictum "a sod job" and citing southern-fried wisdom about weighing one?s pig before wrapping it. Which hardly means they were Bradley backers ? just that they wanted to soak Gore for a few more concessions before climbing aboard. In fact, what impressed Branegan was how quietly ?- and quickly ? the rest...
Root seekers haunt cemeteries. Dennis Rawlings had almost given up searching for a set of great-grandparents in a Port Hope, Ont., graveyard when, on a hunch, he took a pen from his pocket and poked it into the ground, hitting something hard. Tearing up the sod, he found an old stone reading MARY ANN RAWLINGS--DIED 1869. "We picked up 'Grandma' and cleaned her up for the next 100 years, until somebody else comes to visit," he recalls. "It felt like an episode from The Twilight Zone...
...heart of the development, a day-care center and a small suite of offices were built. Nearby, a solar-heated pool and playground looked out on a vineyard. (A restaurant would come later.) The homes came in all types and sizes: traditional, modern, even four with sod roofs. There was virtually no restriction on style, but all had to use solar heating. And there was one iron commandment: Thou shalt not block thy neighbor...
...Somebody: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman) and Julia Scully (Outside Passages), who elicit a hundred now-isn't-that-the-truth moments. O'Faolain, a celebrated columnist at the Irish Times, is more than a female Frank McCourt. While she's no slouch at depicting old-sod poverty--sleeping with a scrap of sheet to keep her father's overcoat from scratching her chin and dreaming of a place to hang her ragged clothes--her real strength is in her close-to-the-bone rendering of the sadness lurking at the edges of every adult life. She understands...