Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play tour guide--a mordant commentator who wants us to know he finds this ritual, like so many other campaign rituals, faintly ridiculous. "All right, well, this is the church," he says. "These trees are tulip trees. And as you can see, it's one of those great stone churches." He tells us how his father, a bank president who suffered from calcified arthritis of the spine, used to "sit and look out at this churchyard, and it gave him a sense of peace, because it was always green, and it was always peaceful, and it was, um, a wonderful...
...will continue to look at every game as a stepping stone in the season's progression," sophomore outside hitter Erin Denniston said...
...Every year the NCAA tournament is the goal, and we view each Ivy league game as a possible stepping stone towards the post-season," Schaeffer said...
That dream is as much a part of Florida as stone crabs and retirement condos. Which is why this summer even landlubbers are rushing to defend scores of stilt houses across the state, from Biscayne Bay to the Everglades and the Gulf Coast. Environmentalists want the state and federal governments to raze the structures, many of which are on public land, because they regard them as a messy human intrusion on Florida's delicate ecosystem...
...think so. I think it's an honor. Some people get upset. I read that Sharon Stone got upset when somebody...