Word: barkely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gary D. Alpert, a scientist at the Department of Environmental Health and Safety for Harvard University, said the squirrel was trapped to prevent it from eating the bark of a tree...
...unspoken motives of proponents of the President's health-care plan are power-lust, arrogance and resentment of doctors. (Each of these has a more emollient name, but we'll get farther if we keep the bark on.) The lust for power, or at very least the conviction that increased state power is the solution to all ills, simply has to be present in any proposal to boost regulation over one-seventh of the nation's economy. Two years after the collapse of communism, and at a time when even the mild-mannered Eurosocialists are considering a four-day workweek...
...seemed that taxol, a drug which would soon be used successfully to shrink ovarian and breast cancer tumors, was only found in the bark of the rare tree...
...giving capacity of what an article in Audobon called the "tree of life" is somewhat limited. According to the American Cancer Society, treatment of one patient requires about three mature trees worth of bark. And such treatment often leads to side effects similar to those suffered by chemotherapy patients, including nausea, vomiting, depression of blood count and cardiac problems...
Anthony Hopkins is Stevens the butler, the old bulldog of Darlington Hall. In the thrust of his Churchillian jaw one can read a declaration of honorable purpose; in his blue eyes one can hear the quiet bark, feel the dogged bite. Stevens lives to serve his master and to rule the servants. Upstairs his step is tentative and his eyes aim for the carpet. Downstairs, as Chairman of the Board, he has a sturdy stride and an imperious gaze. He knows his place all too well. He believes it his job to hear nothing while above, to surrender...