Word: raring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story goes, that night Harvard Hall burned down, and the student realized he held the last rare book in John Harvard's collection. When he strutted into the president's office the next morning, he was thanked for the book, but expelled for stealing it from the library...
Three tons of gold bars, nuggets, bullion and rare coins from the California goldfields were lost in 1857, when the steamship Central America sank in a hurricane off the Carolinas. Now this lost treasure, confirmed 18 months ago and worth up to $1 billion today, is in the eye of another hurricane, this time in a Norfolk, Va., courtroom...
Decareau's "pretty good" performance made a winner out of Harvard hurler Dorringon, despite his sub-par outing on the mound in a rare relief role. Senior Bob Baxter pitched two innings of shutout ball, but Harvard Coach Alex Nahigian gave him the hook in the third so that he would be rested for Friday's key matchup with Yale...
...long-awaited five-year study found "no evidence" that Agent Orange injured soldiers in the field. The report did conclude that Viet Nam veterans are more likely than the general population to get a rare, fatal cancer called non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. But for some mysterious reason, the veterans who suffer from this cancer were predominantly sailors who were stationed off the Viet Nam shore and who had relatively little exposure to the defoliant. Even though the CDC could find no link between Agent Orange and increased cancer, Veterans Affairs Secretary Edward Derwinski immediately authorized compensation for about...
...INFLUENCE. A devilish Rob Lowe matches wits with James Spader (sex, lies, and videotape), who plays a computer-nerd Faust in this stylish thriller. Spader, a truly talented actor, accomplishes the rare trick of making the weak good guy seem more interesting than the strong...