Word: afternoons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yesterday afternoon, a crowd of customers roared as Mark McGwire tied Roger Maris' major-league record of 61 home runs...
...haiku competition is on Friday afternoon. I lead off with a favorite: "Eyes locked. Soul kissing./ Exchanging tongues. I awake/ Singing in Spanish." I win the match. Then I win the bout and advance to the next round. Poet after poet takes the mike. Haikus float by like snowflakes--lovely and fleeting, hard to hold onto. I win my second bout, my third, and suddenly it's the final, and I'm still in. My opponent is D.J. Renegade, a wonderful poet from D.C. Best 9 out of 17 will win the title. He offers social consciousness. I counter with...
Whenever things go terribly wrong, it is always Hillary who leads the way out of the wilderness. By Sunday afternoon she was huddled with the lawyers, shaping the strategy. And though the White House has carefully framed the entire scandal as one immense invasion of privacy, by Sunday the First Family decided to turn on the lights in the mansion so we could see the shadows through the shades. In the middle of the most painful weekend of her life, Hillary invited into her home for comfort the one clergyman in America better known for his pulpit at CNN than...
...able to deliver fully. It bills its economy as a free-market system when it actually is a hybrid between robber-baron capitalism and state control. And now it is snatching away the greatest accomplishments of the painful Yeltsin years: a stable ruble and low inflation. On one sticky afternoon, Yeltsin vows that he will not devalue the ruble and won't even break off his vacation to return to Moscow. Three days later, he does both. Russians view it as a betrayal...
UNITED NATIONS: For Muammar Ghaddafi, that was a poker face. The Libyan leader's rambling, repetitive and occasionally defiant interview on CNN Thursday afternoon -- "They are not pieces of fruit," Ghaddafi said more than once, referring to the suspects in the Pan Am 103 bombing -- left observers first chuckling and then wondering: How sincere...