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1. After descending down to the edge of the river, we boarded a small raft which was floating there on the surface of the water.
2. The students looked on as Linda Puntney went running across the room wearing her purple suit.
3. Modern journalism students, not at all like the ones of yesterday, now know how to shoot video even if the focus of the students is writing.
4. It was on this campus that Barbara Hollingsworth stayed up late into the night to report on campus life and work on editing stories for the 1999 Royal Purple.
5. We watched the big, massive black cloud rise up from the level prairie and cover over the sun.
6. Finian, who is my son, likes to go running around after the dog.
7. The first annual seniors picnic lunch kicked off at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday morning at Sunderland Park.
8. School board members meeting Thursday night elected a new board president with the positive vote of five board members and the no votes of two.
9. After flying in the air over Manhattan, the pilot maneuvered the plane into a landing down on the ground.
10. The children in Jim Thompson’s class and in the class of Tom Smithers gathered, sitting down on the floor together for the 9 a.m. assembly Monday morning.
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1. Mr. John Smith lives in a dumpster at 555 North 55th Street.
2. Smith’s brother, Joe, lives in Denver, Colo., where they grew up with two other brothers.
3. The data had indicate that the Earth wasnt flat, but it was completely destroyed.
4. Who should Bill give the yearbook to?
5. In an unlikely display of solidarity, Mrs. Nancy Boyda and Mr. Sam Brownback skipped through the capital.
6. My sister in law’s four children are Tommy fourteen, Jimmy twelve, Shawn nine and Cindy five months.
7. Mourners at the funeral service remembered how John Smith, the Captain Crunch Spokesman, had cereal for lunch.
8. After all these years I still watch a couple of ER episodes each year.
9. Neither Jim or Fred made the deadline to turn in their stories to Kezie Hall on Thursday by 9 am insuring they would flunk the class.
10. “That game was amazing,” said Tom Smith, of Denver, Colorado, “Its ridiculous the way that guy can shoot.”
11. “Be careful,” Tom warned looking at the over 100 hate-filled signs covered with swastikas.
12. About 35%of letters don’t include a zip code, but they are yet delivered on time.
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With kleenexes clutched tightly in their hands, the students wailed and howled through the hallway.
At the head of the processional, the tenderly wrapped bodies entombed in plastic ice cream or coffee buckets turned sarcophagi were being whisked to their shallow grave – a dodge ball kick from the Indian Creek elementary school play ground.
“May they rest in peace!” eulogized 6th grade teacher Jennifer Hildebrandt over the burial Monday morning. “They were good chickens.”
The birds could have hit the dinner table months previously. But Hildebrandt plucked them from the refrigerated meat case at Food 4 Less grocery store early this year with a different purpose.
The five gut filled chickens were destined for mummification – the promise of an egyptian after life complete with jewels, pets and servents even if they would enter the here after without the convenience of heads. Its a hands-on project that’s been a big hit with her students although Hildebrandt doesn’t take credit for the idea. The 6th-grade teacher before her did it and King Clucks have been staples in some elementary school classrooms for years. But good ideas are worth borrowing, said Hildebrandt.
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