Word: bog
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many of his earlier works, particularly, Heaney shows a fascination with the metaphor of archaeology. In poems selected from his books Wintering Out (1972) and North (1975), he deals at length with the "bog people," prehistoric humans whose bodies scientists have recovered, almost perfectly preserved, from peat bogs in Denmark. These long-buried victims of "tribal, intimate revenge" become symbols of the collective subconscious of their modern descendants...
...wiser to pursue "collective approaches" than "extreme measures to enhance one's prestige." Like the fable of the tortoise and the hare, the Soviets are obviously betting that their slow and steady brand of diplomacy will ultimately pay off, especially if the first mad dash to contain Saddam should bog down in the sand...
...PRAGUE FALLS MAINLY IN THE BOG. When they think of Peace Corps volunteers, Americans are likely to imagine idealistic young folk, sporting sunburns and khaki shorts, digging wells in Tanzania. That image will need some revision when volunteers start arriving in the world's newest developing area -- Eastern Europe. Agreements have been signed for 60-member teams to begin working in Hungary and Poland this summer, and a similar program is being negotiated for Czechoslovakia. In the initial phase, all the volunteers -- whose average age has increased from 24 to 31 since the program began -- will teach English...
...invasion turned out to be less than fully successful, the Administration would be running grave dangers. At the extreme, it could bog down in a Viet Nam-style guerrilla war directed by a fugitive Noriega in the jungles. The Panamanian government that the U.S. installed may be regarded as American puppets; President Guillermo Endara was sworn in by a Panamanian judge, but on an American military base at about the time the attack started. A drawn-out crisis could sour U.S. relations with other Latin American nations, eternally nervous about Yanqui intervention against however noxious a government...