Word: boa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...foot-long boa constrictor escaped from its cage in a Harvard Medical School student's dorm room yesterday, slithering into a heating duct before it was recaptured by University officials who lured the animal out with chicken meat after cutting a hole in the student's wall...
...audience erupted into whistles, cheers and catcalls, Joshua Oppenheimer '96-'97 rose from his seat in the center of the auditorium. Oppenheimer, who wore a black mini-dress with boa trim, a broad-rimmed hat and cats-eye rhinestone sunglasses, began to blow a whistle and shout above the pandemonium...
RECIFE. After 11 shark attacks in one year in the Recife area, city authorities have been forced to ban surfing at five beaches south of the resort, including the popular Boa Viagem. One surfer died as a result of the attacks. Body boarding, wind surfing and kayaking are also prohibited in the 20-km zone. Swimmers are advised to stay close to shore. The ban is in effect for an indefinite period...
...make Honey and Nick so ludicrously two-dimensional, for it undermines the true cruelty of George and Martha's manipulations if we feel Honey and Nick aren't worthy of anything better. Susan Santoian dresses Martha as too conspicuous a floozy; all that's missing is a feather boa...
...addition to the now legendary alligators, there were cows, beagles, macaws, raccoons, goats, geese, ponies, pigs and skunks (not descented), all welcome members of the famously unorthodox Reno household. "Daddy would come out of the bathroom and say, 'Would somebody get this' -- and you can interject pelican, otter, & boa constrictor -- 'out of here so I can take a bath,' " explains Maggy Reno Hurchalla, Janet's sister, a county commissioner in central Florida...