Word: begotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Obsessed with a fear of being ridiculed in his choice of a wife, Arnolphe has carefully planned his marriage over many years. He took charge of a young peasant girl, Agnes (Katherine Robin), and raised her just as he wished--innocent and stupid, a girl who thinks "children are begotten through the ear." Now that she's reached marriageable age, he's brought her to a secluded manor near his home to keep her chaste in the last days before their marriage...
...those crazy rule-begotten runners never got a chance to appear...
When the representatives of 50 nations gathered in San Francisco four decades ago to create the United Nations, they invested the newly begotten global organization with the dreamiest hope of mankind: "To save succeeding generations from the scourge of war." Some 130 wars and more than 16 million fatalities later, the question is not whether the U.N. can fulfill its utopian promise--all too obviously it cannot--but what role, if any, it can play in the future...
Some of the laundering is much more subtle, and sophisticated. In Houston, a federal indictment last week claimed that officials of a small steel company accepted huge amounts of drug-begotten cash...
...before, had tided westward to populate the New. Now the New World came back, out of the tide, literally, to redeem the Old. If there has sometimes been a messianic note in American foreign policy in postwar years, it derives in part from the Normandy configuration. America gave its begotten sons for the redemption of a fallen Europe, a Europe in the grip of a real Satan with a small mustache. The example of Hitler still haunts the Western conscience and the vocabulary of its policy (Munich and appeasement, for example). But when the U.S. has sought to redeem other...