Word: bombarded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard students do not take well to being parking-spot-less, or even worse, an exile across the Charles. And Whittingham hears no end of the complaints. Unaccepting of anything but the best, students bombard his office with complaints of their poor parking status. When banished to Allston, Whittingham hears the questions, "Where's Allston?, The Business School? That's ridiculous!" Or, better yet, "I have to go across the bridge? What bridge...
...Harvard's fearsome top line wove through the offensive zone Saturday night to bombard helpless Dartmouth goaltender Meghan Cahill as though it were a shooting drill, it triggered something much more special than the red light...
...visitors (ages 6 and older) will see, starting July 6, when they join anthropologist Robert Vetter for a highly personal eight-day encounter with American Indians in the southwestern corner of the state. As he has for the past decade, in Journeys into American Indian Territory programs, Vetter will "bombard" participants with insightful interactions so they will learn about the culture of the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Wichita, Caddo, Delaware, Cheyenne and Arapaho people of this region. (This program costs $895 for adults and half as much for children...
...several weeks every year on warm and sunny islands in the Caribbean, and we may as well not know or care about it, except for the fact that it seems to be in our faces every year from January to March--Let's Go, MTV and the Internet bombard us--and many, many people...
With big-character placards crying BOMBARD THE HEADQUARTERS! revolutionaries attuned to Mao took over the party and ousted Liu and Deng. Mao's wife, the ferociously radical Jiang Qing, had been biding her time to get at Deng. He had scorned some of her extreme efforts to "reform" Chinese culture, such as turning traditional opera into perfervid propaganda spectacles. "I support wholeheartedly that Beijing opera should be reformed," he said. "But I just do not feel like watching these plays." The croissant lover who had once commented that no one could be truly civilized without having dined out was despised...