Word: trigger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Replacing exhausted tri-captain Dominique Kalil at the midpoint of the second half, Gambale used her break-away speed to fight into the clear past a pair of Husky defenders, only to lose the handle before she could pull the trigger...
...soldiers burst through the underground bunker's door, safeties off, trigger fingers tense. If the purloined gold--some $23 million worth--is anywhere, it's likely to be here--heavily, nervously guarded...
...teacher Mrs. Kelly, I'd have to agree that "the more senses you bring into the learning process, the more fruitful will be the learning." Marking up textbooks, thus, is not a malicious act of destruction. Rather, marginalia are a personal art form wherein highlighting, underlining and even doodling trigger specific parts of your brain. The fact remains that we don't just remember ideas; we remember colors, tastes and sounds. Bet you still remember those magenta koolats you wore to the 6th grade dance. For shit's sake, get that neat smelling marker away from your nasal cavity...
...diverse and often fractious 13,000-island archipelago. "Secessionist rumblings are stretching the army pretty thin, and they may have come to the view that claiming martial law powers at this point was a mistake," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "Cracking down too hard right now may actually trigger more secessionist activity, and the Indonesian military has a very sophisticated approach to dealing with these things. It?s also not a monolith ? it's generals who come together in competing coalitions. If there is a backlash against the recent humiliations suffered by the military, it may come in the form...
When those letters do get opened, students and staff screen the cases using the Innocence Project's criteria: When the inmate was tried, was identity the key issue? (If he admitted he pulled the trigger but claimed it was self-defense, there's not a lot a DNA test can do to help.) Was biological evidence taken at some point? In rape cases semen is generally recovered, and in murder cases there is often hair or skin evidence. But some samples come from less obvious sources: in the World Trade Center bombing case, DNA was recovered from saliva...