Word: southern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...separate meetings last night, members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Arab Students and the Harvard Students for Israel committee of Hillel reemphasized their commitment to dialogues that began last winter after Israeli forces bombed military and civilian targets in southern Lebanon...
...Kennedy through the Senator's son, a fellow amputee, and that he went to praise Kennedy's work on behalf of veterans. By the time he had finished talking, Cleland had transformed a partisan attack into an eloquent speech that hewed closely to the values of his small-town Southern audience...
...foremost assassin, ran the Vlakplaas, a shadowy vigilante group created by the apartheid-era South African government to fight the ANC with whatever tactics it chose. He and Williamson were contemporaries. "The problem is that a lot of what De Kock says is third-person hearsay," says TIME Southern Africa bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. "De Kock is trying to ease his sentence by providing information, and so people are skeptical about his testimony. De Kock is a monstrous, truly evil man who is trying to make as many waves as he can as he faces life imprisonment." Whether his revelation...
...imagine that park-department employee inventing beach volleyball. For one thing, he was always fully clothed. Also, had he been working on the Southern California beach where beach volleyball was presumably invented, he would have thought of some reason why volleyball couldn't be played. He would have said the posts made marks in the sand...
...volleyballers would have found some way to get around that, of course. People who hung around on Southern California beaches in those days--volleyballers, surfers, body builders--were among the first groups in postwar America to become known for openly displaying a disdain for authority and the American work ethic...