Word: swords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year." On April 19, 1775, the Battle of Lexington--the opening salvos in America's Revolutionary War--began. On April 19, 1993, the siege at Waco ended in flames and despair. On April 19, 1995, Richard Wayne Snell, a member of the white supremacist group The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord, was executed for the murder of a Jewish businessman and a black police officer. And when Timothy McVeigh rented the Ryder truck, he used a forged South Dakota driver's license on which the date of issue was listed as April 19, 1993. "He probably...
...sack, with cloth bags for shoes and New Testament in hand, completely unaware that it was snowing, confident that he was Jesus Christ. And the angry German who phoned police to complain that his hotel's kitchen staff had prevented him from preparing the Last Supper. And the naked, sword-wielding man who ran through the Old City on what he explained to arresting officers was a mission to heal the blind...
...gunmen ended the carnage around 3 p.m., then sauntered out of town, taking along 13 hostages, including a group of women wearing uniforms from Gerry's department store. Left behind were 53 dead, 44 wounded and a white flag with the name of Abu Sayyaf (Bearer of the Sword), a Muslim separatist group known to have ties to terrorists...
Still, there is a price to be paid for confidentiality. So long as the Ad Board administers justice fairly, secrecy protects students' rights without any ill consequences. But when a judgment seems inappropriate, the other side of this double-edged sword appears. The Ad Board is free from all criticism and outside inquiry. It exercises absolute control and is accountable to no one but itself...
Charles Lee and David Sword...