Word: basks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson can bask in its recent success and work toward...
...local culture, then bought another at the new Manhattan Club in New York City, which they use as an outpost for trips to take in theater, restaurants, Japanese spas and night life. As James puts it, "The bottom line is that we enjoy time-share vacations because you can bask like a rich person for a small window of time...
...four boys, one 14 and three 15, who authorities said had made plans to go on a killing spree last Friday at the mostly black urban school. The assault was to end in a suicidal shoot-out with police, which one of the shooters was supposed to survive to "bask in the glory," a friend told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. A suspect's mother said police told her they had found a school map with X marks on it, suggesting an assault plan. Police seized two guns at a suspect's home and said they believed the boys had planned...
...night I got to drop my lifelong defensiveness and bask in Springsteen songs rhapsodizing about drag racing on the highway, riding motorcycles toward swamps, taking dates on amusement-park rides, working at oil refineries and getting arrested by state troopers. I have never experienced any of those things, but somehow I felt them. Because that's what being from New Jersey is really about: feeling things in Bruce Springsteen songs. I have a hungry heart. I am in the dumps with the mumps as an adolescent pumps his way into his hat. It's like he knows...
...Americans bask by the ocean this summer, they might consider the latest candidate for extinction: the beach beneath them. Dean exhaustively documents the ways in which coastal development threatens the very amenity that has caused a trillion-dollar land rush to the shores since World War II. Seawalls, jetties and other technologies aimed at protecting waterfront property only accelerate the loss of sand or starve nearby beaches. Unless politicians end the absurd subsidies that encourage development on shifting sands, Dean powerfully argues, America may face a future of beachless beach towns...