Word: reconstruct
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...most ambitious efforts to reconstruct family life is at Logos School, a private academy outside St. Louis that was founded two decades ago for troubled teens. Strict rules governing both school and extracurricular life are laid out for parents in a 158-page manual. Families are required to have dinner together every night, and parents are expected to keep their children out of establishments or events, say local hangouts or rock concerts, where drugs are known to be sold. Parents must also impose punishments when curfews and other rules are broken. Says Lynn, whose daughter Sara enrolled at Logos...
...computer code name that activated it. Guessing, he ran a program mysteriously titled AB; when nothing seemed to happen, he ran it again. Jackson was then horrified to see his entire report reorganized into an alphabetical list of single words, from Akhromeyev to Zelenogorsk. It took three hours to reconstruct the story, after which Jackson vengefully purged the AB program...
...began to reconstruct the book from memory. Once or twice a month, Lusia would take what I'd written to Moscow and send it on to Efrem and Tanya in the U.S. How she accomplished this is a story that cannot yet be told. By April 1982, I had finished another rough draft. But on Oct. 11, 1982, the entire manuscript -- 500 typewritten pages Lusia had brought back from Moscow and 900 handwritten pages I had recently completed -- was again stolen, this time by what can only be called gangster methods...
...simplest and most obvious reason: the world is a pretty miserable place for many people. If we can reconstruct the history of life as somehow inherently directed toward us, it is a very comforting thought. It is an old one too. It is embodied right in Genesis 1. We are not willing to give it up easily...
There are two plywood circles showing where gun turrets were taken out to save weight when hauling the 9,600-lb. Little Boy atom bomb. Back in the bomb bay work is going on to reconstruct the single hook used to suspend and release the bomb. A normal double hook for bombs was abandoned by the mission planners, who feared, if one malfunctioned, the armed bomb might dangle in the rack like hell on a tether. You remember the day 44 years ago on a college campus when the news came of the Enola Gay's successful drop...