Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, patient readers will find their investment of time worthwhile. The book's leisurely pace contributes to the overall effect of uncanny impersonation. Victorian novels were not brisk because people had plenty of time to spend with them. Now it is difficult to go home after work, put some wood in the fireplace, light candles or gas lamps, and settle in for a long, peaceful evening. The Quincunx suggests how much fun that could...
Instead of a small dose of mildly radioactive iodine, Lane had been treated with a megadose of radiation normally given to patients with thyroid cancer. She spent four days in a hospital isolation ward while her home was scrubbed down. Doctors say she has already contaminated her children...
...since the same fear of crime that leads some people to call for gun control sends many others running to buy a side arm. "It's great to have the N.R.A. out there battling for us," says Jean Pitman of Vero Beach, Fla., who bought a pistol after her home was robbed. "The real worry for me is losing the right...
...bruising zealotry of some N.R.A. members has begun to hurt their cause. California used to be the kind of place that the N.R.A. could count on. A typical police chief was Daryl Gates of Los Angeles, who liked to urge law- abiding citizens to keep a gun at home. Many Californians needed no such urging. In a 1982 referendum, the state's voters clobbered a ballot measure that would have banned the sale of handguns and required those already held to be registered...
...area of the crash is near Oyster Bay Harbor on the north shore of Long Island, just south of the Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, home of President Theodore Roosevelt. It is a isolated, wooded area of expensive homes...