Word: bedevilment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aren't all convinced that they're actually linked "as flesh and blood" to the mainland Chinese, with many nationalist elements maintaining that their differences are ethnic as much as political. So if emergency aid sent across the Taiwan Strait is given different meanings in each capital, that could bedevil any warming of relations through earthquake relief...
...direction, each could become a liver, a heart, a brain or a bone. When a team from the University of Wisconsin announced their discovery last fall, doctors around the world looked forward to a new era of medicine--one without organ-donor shortages or the tissue-rejection problems that bedevil transplant patients today...
...traditional, coordinated, flawless, non-competitive, polyphonic, friction-free way--so that sights can be raised; crescent moons can become full; tides can swell; and all our tubs can paddle off together, to the happy isles, where there will never be Jabberwocks or even Snarks to snare or bedevil...
...establishment has pursued church planting more passionately than St. Louis'. But the city's church-planting story carries an ambivalent message: while the outreach brings Christians into the church building, it doesn't quite integrate them into the fold. It is a parable of the worldly limitations that still bedevil communities of faith...
...chasing anarchists and Bolsheviks in the '20s, gangsters and bootleggers in the '30s, fascists in the '40s, communists in the '50s and civil-rights leaders and antiwar protesters in the '60s. The enemies, always changing, are changing still, and the agency that confronts them now faces problems that would bedevil any FBI director trying to drag the agency into the modern age--which helps explain why Louis Freeh is having a very bad spring break...