Word: treads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cornell has little to cheer about, considering its four losses to zero wins. The little it has to look up about is leading rebounders Rich Medina (6.5 rpg) and Justin Tread-well (5.8 rpg) and the fact that it almost beat Syracuse three weeks...
...Japan had installed a pro-Japanese regime in Nanking, but U.S. aid enabled Chiang to fight on. Konoye began wondering about mediators to end the exasperating war that Tokyo insisted on calling the Chinese Incident. Where angels fear to tread, in rushed the missionary fathers of the Maryknoll Society, who guilelessly assured each side that the other seemed ready to talk. And so talks began in Washington in the spring...
...there movie realms into which women directors still feel they cannot tread? Some women think studio executives are uncomfortable trusting them with large-scale action and special-effects pictures, but most are indifferent to this form of discrimination. These movies are the biggest grossers, Donoghue admits, but she's not interested in doing them. Silver is reluctant to rule them out for women, "any more than I'd want to say that a man can't possibly do a childbirth scene." Lili Zanuck, whose Rush is said to be about as tough as movies come, thinks crime drama somehow suits...
...Recorded in Arabic by Algerian singer Mohamed Mazouni, the song is popular with France's North African youth. The single, which was available in both audio- and videocassette versions, attacks the West for the war and ends on an apocalyptic note: "Where are you, Muslims?/ You permitted Bush/ to tread in the Holy Shrines . . . other Arabs are hypnotized by the dollar . . . /Oil prices rise, the atomic bomb/ is being made to terrorize Israel...
...mortar fire echoed through the city as a dull percussion accompaniment" to the siege. A few days later, she described the captured city as being like "the eye of a storm" as the main highways "give off a low hum from the washboard-like ruts caused by the tread of heavy tanks...