Word: blanketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sister Delia says, "Our mother was not the warmest person, but she established our world. I think of her as a security blanket without the warmth. She had an opinion on everything, and we ((daughters)), who are just as opinionated, did everything she told us to. The Ephron girls do not join sororities or any organized religion." Each daughter had to take two years of Latin and three years of French in high school. "God forbid we should have anything to do with science," Delia recalls. Delia grew up resisting the idea of writing altogether: "Nora had staked that...
...verge of final action; 88 more await government approval. They are the first patches in a quilt of autonomous schools -- which are tax supported and tuition free but in effect can operate as if they were privately run -- that the country's Conservative government hopes will blanket the country...
...Bobigny self-interest has replaced ideology, and the Communists have built their political machine on a hair-trigger response to the grass roots. "They blanket the city," says opposition city councilor Jean-Luc Romero. "The moment anyone loses a job, a party worker stops by to offer help, part-time employment or a social subsidy." Among Bobigny's 44,000 residents, the 2,700 Communist activists are organized into 70 neighborhood and factory- based cells. If a family cannot pay the rent in its low-income housing project, the local cell leader will intervene with the authorities. If police show...
...weather forecasters, the radar station in Norman represents the bright edge of what is technically possible. It is the first of a proposed network of 160 stations that will eventually blanket the U.S. with high-power radar, vastly improving the accuracy of predictions. The network is part of an ambitious $2.25 billion modernization of the National Weather Service, almost a decade in the making, that also features a fleet of advanced satellites, a mosaic of automated weather stations and a high-speed information network linking them all together...
...cold sweats screaming his name. This went on twice a week for three months. It was just awful. We killed him in a candy store, and I helped to drag his body out, threw him on a road in Jersey and left him in a ditch with a blanket wrapped around him. I seen his face when I turned the car around...