Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...been wanting this job since I was a little kid, said Fitzgerald, 55, who grew up in Cambridge. He said he hopes to be "a fire fighter's fire chief and a good leader...
...could argue that concern for the environment should come from the heart, and that using incentives to promote conservation will only teach students to follow their pocketbooks. Back when I was a kid, my parents told me to shut doors and turn off lights. Never once did they lecture me on the abstract virtues of preserving scarce fossil fuels or cutting down on air pollution. They simply asked me if I thought they could afford to heat the whole outdoors...
...never did escape. By 1987 Los Angeles detectives had heard reports that a big black kid (Bennett is 5 ft. 11 in., 260 lbs.) was arriving at drug night spots in a Rolls-Royce driven by a young Hispanic. This was a mistake Bennett repeated: he made himself too visible. He even drove up to a South Central car wash in his Mercedes-Benz to boast to bystanders, "I got more keys ((kilos of cocaine)) in my trunk than you all got clothes on your back...
...Obnoxious Child: Even worse, and just as likely, is for the proud parent to plunk their kid down next to me. "Oh, look, you can sit here next to this nice young man," they say. But what they mean is "Oh, look, you can sit here next to this sucker...
Michel Briestroff, who carries an accent from his home in Roubaix, France, spent the last two years in Canada to improve his hockey. Seniors Ted Donato and Mike Vukonich will look to the left wing to find Breistroff. Described by Tomassoni as a "big, strong kid who can fly," the Frenchman should blend well with the two veterans...