Word: swords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...replicating paperbacks based on movies and TV shows, notably Star Wars and Star Trek. "Movie tie-ins outsell regular science fiction by quite a bit," Brown says with a sniff. "We don't consider them real science fiction." A bit more acceptable, though still off the point, are traditional sword-and-sorcery fantasies like Robert Jordan's A Crown of Swords (Tor), which debuted at No. 2 on last week's New York Times list...
...chair Charles K. Lee '93 confessed he stole $120,000 and co-chair David G. Sword '93 admitted to taking $7,000. Lee served one year in prison...
...other Jackie, Tacky Jackie, was not so inspiring. I remember reading one of the early "Jackie, Oh!"-type biographies and being struck by the story of First Lady Jackie receiving, as a gift from a head of state, a ceremonial gold sword. She held it in her hands as it gleamed in the lights of the East Room--and noticed that embedded in the surface were a host of beautiful jewels. First Lady Jackie became Tacky Jackie, and tried to find out how to get the jewels out, to make herself some earrings...
...been created in a mere span of 40 years, even less than one generation's lifetime! And yet, the dark shadow of a second Korean War, a disaster which could possibly wipe out the gap by just destroying everything, is always hanging over the peninsula like the sword of Damocles...
WHILE MORROW AND OTHERS ENGAGE IN analysis and sophistry trying to explain what happened at Dunblane, the most fundamental reason is clear: the monster Hamilton had four loaded handguns. Would the gun worshippers have us believe that this maniac could have achieved such a level of carnage with a sword or a bow and arrow? CHARLES ESTES Fullerton, California...