Word: soled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact that Jackson was born black in the segregated South is essential to unraveling his character, but, as Frady convincingly demonstrates, the pangs of racial insult are not the sole, or even most important, source of Jackson's relentless drive for attention and self-definition. The illegitimate offspring of 16-year-old Helen Burns and her married next-door neighbor Noah Robinson, Jackson suffered the taunt "Jesse ain't got no daddy" from other children in his native Greenville, South Carolina. After his mother married hardworking Charles Jackson and had a child with him, three-year old Jesse was sent...
...will also replace Anthony Broderick, an associate adminstrator, who will retire at month's end. At the same conference, Transportation Secretary Fredrico Pena said he would ask Congress to change the FAA's charter to remove promotion of air travel from its mission, making airline safety its sole focus...
...University began building a new facility in 1946 for the sole purpose of holding a giant calculator, which measured some 50 feet in length...
...settled Mount Zion, a hill that stood out dramatically from its surroundings to betoken the "holy," all successive conquerors have found there an unshakable primal attachment, however different their rites and rituals. But instead of living up to their sacred ideals, the religious conquerors always fell into warfare for sole possession of the place, a battle that goes on unabated as the city enters its fifth millennium...
...horrific attacks on civilians of the world. Hezbollah is widely believed to be behind the 1983 truck bombing that killed 241 Americans in Beirut. It was also responsible for the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires. Contrary to the claim of the authors that the sole aim of the Hezbollah aggression in Southern Lebanon is "to end the Israeli occupation of their country" (which country, Iran?), the motives of the so-called "Party of God" as declared in their 1985 charter are "not limited to the [Israeli Army] presence in Lebanon" but rather include "the complete destruction...