Word: whole
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact that there aren't any [women] doesn't tell the whole story," Rudenstine says...
Salem's Halloween extravaganza--the town also hosts events for the whole month leading up to Halloween--is an odd commentary on how we relate to the past. To some extent, people come to Salem for nothing more than the spectacle of seeing so many other people in costume. But the history of the place feeds into the celebration here so intimately that the holiday banners hanging from lampposts in the center of town are decorated with the silhouettes of witches on broomsticks. Even during the off-season, Salem's Main Street is lined with witch-themed shops...
...raucous street party in Salem over the weekend, and the whole year-round industry that has sprung up in town around witches and witchcraft, is a sort of macabre parody of a gruesome episode in the town's history. Everyone who comes to Haunted Happenings, the official name of the celebration, knows what happened in Salem to put it on the Halloween map. But that's just one more reason to buy the T-shirt. In the end, the witch trials are just a great excuse for a party...
This year's Halloween celebration ended with a near-riot. After some idiots in the already thinning crowd started throwing bottles at cops a little before midnight, the whole police contingent--including mounted police, a couple of police dogs, a few officers on motorcycles and dozens on foot--methodically cleared the streets in the center of town...
...wins have given us a better feel for how to play a whole game for a win," sophomore keeper Mike Meagher said. "Just like losing, winning is contagious, and everyone is ready to keep going...