Word: dropping
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Rime of the Ancient Mariner: "Water, water, everywhere, nor an Evian drop to drink...
...committees from the United Methodist Church, the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. Together members of this faction sponsor some 22,000 Scout units (roughly 20% of the total). If the Scouts became a fiercely anti-gay group, many churches and schools would quickly drop them. That's why the Scout oath is so mushy, requiring its takers to be "morally straight," a term devised a century ago, before the word "straight" had a sexual implication. Today, however, it is the term to which scouting officials must point when asked for a statement of their...
...criticism that the ratings dived because star Keri Russell cut her flowing, curly hair. (Would that Billy's dye job had done the same for Ally McBeal.) "It's something that a girl of that age, having gone through serious changes, would realistically do," says Abrams, who blames the drop-off on the cutting of a narrative strand instead: the co-ed protagonist left a long-term relationship at the start of the season. Whatever the problem, it hasn't been the dry-witted scripts--including a pitch-perfect Twilight Zone imitation--or the cast, which, with beautiful comic timing...
...personal reporting does show how nationalism can lead once friendly neighbors to burn one another's houses. And even though his drawings don't offer the drama that superhero comic books deliver, their relentless flatness captures Bosnia more convincingly than photographs or Christiane Amanpour. "With a comic, you can drop the reader in there," says Sacco, 39. "It's a continued image. A photographer takes one image, but a cartoon can show you an atmosphere...
...Duma-approved __ II treaty 11. He forced a runoff in Peru 12. Clinton doesn't want one 14. A geisha may tie one on 15. Bacon bit? 17. Ambient music composer Brian 18. Name of two Pulitzer-winning papers in 2000 20. Ridge, who wants Republicans to modify or drop their abortion plank 21. Bush said he's "a better person" for meeting them 22. Author Steve, who has named JonBenet's mom as a suspect 24. Big bash 25. 1999 Frank McCourt memoir 26. Bush, to Trudeau 27. Takeoff artist 29. Williams, who withdrew from the Family Circle...