Word: thought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called the police. Then, over the phone, she could be overheard desperately trying to warn the kids. "There's a guy with a gun!" she yelled, bleeding. "Kids, under the table! Kids, stay on the floor! Oh, God. Oh, God--kids, just stay down!" At first, Craig Scott thought it was all a prank, maybe the teacher was in on it. But the noise was real, and the fear was real, and he ducked under a table with his friend Matt Kechter and one of Columbine's few black students, a senior named Isaiah Shoels. And they heard the gunmen...
...schools. But in the face of the carnage, he mostly dropped the wonkery and assumed the role of National Grief Counselor. "It is very important to explain to children, all over America, what has happened," he said, "and to reassure our own children that they are safe." If anyone thought it odd that the government's chief executive officer was advising parents on what to whisper to their children as they tucked them in at night, nobody said so. Under the circumstances, the President's words seemed tasteful and well chosen...
...stopped eating eggs about 15 years ago. It was one of those offhand decisions, made with very little thought or research. I'd just finished whipping up a chocolate mousse--full of raw egg whites--when a college friend warned me ominously about salmonella poisoning. (Talk about deflating!) Then came all those stories about eggs being loaded with artery-clogging cholesterol, and somehow I lost my taste for them. Whenever I did eat a hard-boiled egg, I'd feel guilty...
...personal confrontations, turning the other cheek can sometimes, although rarely, defuse violence. But not in war. Without Charles Martel's victory over the Muslims at Poitiers in 732, Western civilization might never have existed. Without Charlemagne's tireless campaigning, we would never have thought of a united Europe. War will stop only when a continual state of nationalistic flux ends. Peace will not be brought by a return to religion, for it has been at the heart of more wars than secular causes. JAMES SCOFIELD Olympia, Wash...
...imagine the thought that crept into Fidel Castro's mind sometime last year: "I would like for Cuba to play baseball against the great New York Yankees!" Except of course that would be embarrassing, since the Yankees are paying quite a bit of money to the Cuban defector Orlando Hernandez. And so the thought became "I would like for Cuba to play baseball against the great Baltimore Orioles!" And on March 28 it was so, when an Orioles team featuring some of the highest-priced talent in the bigs went down to Havana and became the first Major League Baseball...