Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...athletic mettle. The closest thing we've seen to progress has been the story of ice hockey goalie Erin Whitten earlier this year. Whitten, relieving an injured teammate during a game this fall in the all-professional East Coast Hockey League, was credited with the victory for the Toledo Storm. "A barrier is broken," proclaimed Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy...
Despite airlines' discounted fares--and an offer of a free pass for the King himself--to Memphis to celebrate Elvis Presley's 59th birthday, Boston's third winter storm in eight days forced Logan Airport to close all of Saturday morning, cancelling numerous flights...
...same vision came to Elizabeth Yanish Shwayder, a sculptor from Denver, 11 years ago. Visiting her daughter in Toronto, she learned of that city's annual coat drive, which collects used winterwear and gives it to the needy. In 1982, as Denver suffered through a horrific winter storm, Shwayder brought the concept home. Seven years later, the coat drive had become a Denver institution, and Shwayder decided to go national. Her first target was New York City...
...conventions of all three films are exposed. They mean to shock and then inspire, with the revelation that good people can triumph. They amount to a tiny ray of Hollywood sunshine in the storm of 20th century chaos. While seeming to look clearly at the world, they ignore the bitter, deprived existences of most people who live in it: in Ukraine or Ireland or Vietnam, or in the death camp of an AIDS ward...
Faced with the gathering storm, the leadership of the N.R.A. is trying to shift the spotlight back to the larger problem of crime. "The whole debate over gun control is a public fraud in terms of doing anything in the world that affects violent criminals," says N.R.A. executive vice president Wayne LaPierre. "What's missing from this whole debate is what we all know works: confronting violent criminals and taking them off the street. That's what politicians don't have the will to do, but that's what the American public is demanding...