Word: wagonful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...China and both of my parents suffered extensively throughout the Cultural Revolution as my family was labeled "blacks" and "capitalist-roaders." Yet, even with this past, I find myself speaking out about how people must look at the present situation with objectivity and reality before jumping on the band wagon in the name of human rights...
...years, ETS scoffed at test preparation, but now they are marketing their own line of products, Andrew S. Rosen, CEO of Kaplan Educational Centers, told the New York Times. ETS has jumped on the band wagon and offers its own test preparation guides for its own tests, an advantage clearly not shared by any of the for-profit companies in the field...
...Wednesday, combat-ready paratroopers lined the two blocks of Park Avenue in front of the school, stood with fixed bayonets on corners a block away in each direction... A jeep rolled through the barricade at 16th Street and Park Avenue, followed by an Army station wagon and another jeep. The Negroes piled out of the station wagon. Three platoons came on the double across the school grounds, deployed in strategic positions. Another platoon lined up on either side of the Negroes, escorted them inside the building... [Once there the] Negro children reported that they were well treated... During the noon...
...forebears did three centuries ago--tugging at the yoke of a Belgian draft mule. The only sounds he hears are the snap of a rein across the mule's hindquarters, the simple mechanical whirl of his corn-harvesting machine and the creak of his oak-plank wagon as he hauls another stack of feed corn to his son-in-law's silo. Like their ancestors, Jacob and his kin light their farmhouses with gas lanterns and drive carriage horses--never automobiles--back and forth to town...
...people of Garden City, Kans., have always lived at the end of the world. In the 1870s and '80s, wagon trains plodded along the Santa Fe Trail for a month or more from Kansas City, on the state's eastern edge, to the scrappy little community near its western border. Even today the trip takes eight mind-numbing hours by car. No wonder Garden City (pop. 24,072) and hundreds of other rural communities in western Kansas have had a tough time persuading physicians to come and set up a practice. In fact, more than half the state...