Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nearly emptied. Custodian Lou Tonani was making his usual rounds when he happened upon an old man in a wheelchair, a bag of diapers dangling by his side. He wore a brand-new sweatsuit, blue bedroom slippers and a baseball cap emblazoned with the words PROUD TO BE AMERICAN. Twin typewritten notes, carefully taped to opposite sides of the wheelchair, identified him as "John King," a retired farmer suffering from Alzheimer's disease and requiring round-the-clock nursing care. All labels had been cut from his clothing and identifying marks scoured from his wheelchair. Who on earth, Tonani wondered...
Currently, Parker's lineup has sophomore Didzis Voldins at stroke, junior Bill Cooper in the seven seat, followed by junior Ethan Ayer, senior Captain Steve Trafton, Bill's twin brother John, sophomore Colin Chant, sophomore Adam Holland, junior Lars Mellemseter in bow and sophomore coxswain David Weiden...
...great American music machine still maintains its twin capitals in New York City and Los Angeles, but its epicenter is inclined to shift as frequently and erratically as a tropical depression. Athens, Ga., was the regional rage just . . . well, was it yesterday? And there was Minneapolis only a few years back; before that it was Philadelphia, Detroit, Memphis...
...argue that the United States is too poor and too unworthy to play a major world role. Some Republicans, abandoning the tradition of enlightened foreign policy stretching from Eisenhower through Bush, call for a new isolationism. Both fail to see the iron link between the U.S. leadership and our twin goals of peace abroad and prosperity at home...
...from the area, reading Point No-Pointis like returning home and finding Twin Peaks. The mystery is old hat, and probably could have been done better by Agatha or Angela. But Quarryville is something different...