Word: tuscon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gist: In the predawn hours of April 30, 1871, a group of attackers ambushed an encampment of Apaches in Aravaipa Canyon, outside the town of Tuscon. 144 people - overwhelmingly women and children - were slaughtered. This much we know at the outset of Shadows at Dawn, by Brown University historian Karl Jacoby. We also know who these attackers were, for the most part: an unlikely alliance of white settlers, Spanish-speaking landholders known as vecinos and members of an opposing tribe, the Tohono O'odham. But rather than tie these four groups' tales together into a standard history of what became...
...from Chile deserves a job more than an illegal immigrant from Mexico? I hope it is not considered bigoted to be in favor of the rule of law and against the systematic disrespect of it by those who enter our country illegally and those who help them. Jeremy Slavin, TUSCON, ARIZ...
...Crimson first reported the dismissal on Sept. 14. At the time, Murphy said only that the senior from Tuscon, Ariz. was dismissed for a “team matter...
...Conn., and came to West Point to be the toughest infantryman he could be. Tom Pae came from Newark, Calif., just east of San Francisco, as the son of Korean artists, to better himself and give back to his family's adopted country as a soldier and a leader. Tuscon native Kristen Beyer knew nothing about the army and entered West Point mainly to swim for its Division I team, but she stayed to pursue a new dream of flying Blackhawk helicopters...
...Tuscon, Ariz...