Word: waded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last month with a series of nationwide "speak-outs" in forums ranging from a Unitarian church in Georgia to the Massachusetts statehouse in Boston. Women and men alike read accounts of the tragic operations that took place before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision. An even greater number, however, read stories about women who had received necessary, beneficial, legal abortions without danger or guilt. A huge speak-out is scheduled for this Tuesday in Washington. From 7 a.m. until midnight, letters and statements will be read in the western plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue...
...episode of the classic Walt Disney film Fantasia, the dinosaurs take over the earth to the impassioned strains of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. An adorable clutch of baby tricerotopses hatches from eggs; sloe-eyed brontosauruses wade in marshes; a bony-backed stegosaurus struggles for its life against the meat-eating Tyrannosaurus rex. But as the years flash by, the world mysteriously grows hotter and more violent: swamps evaporate, earthquakes trigger giant tidal waves, and the princely reptiles crawl across an encroaching desert to meet their certain doom...
When he discusses the current issues confronting the region's leaders and their allies in Washington and Moscow, for example, Carter slips back four years and settles into State Departmental lingo. In a tone reminiscent of the memos he had to wade through during his yours in the oval office, he methodically lists the goals, interests and strategies of all of the area's key actors...
...importance of the issue at Harvard and in Massachusetts has increased since the preliminary passage of a bill which would completely prohibit abortions in the state if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe vs. Wade, the landmark 1973 case legalizing abortion, Thompson said...
...Wade Boggs and Tony Arms drove in three runs apiece as the Red Sox, who beat the Yankees 9-2 in the season opener Monday, made...