Word: bored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...posters, most of which bore the approval of the Subterranean Review in their bottom right corners, are riddled with so many circumlocutions and outright fallacies that they amount to nothing less than a blood libel against the Jewish state...
...certainly nothing that Saddam Hussein intended, but his invasion of Kuwait bore its most significant fruit on Sunday. For the first time since World War II, the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union met each other not as cold war adversaries or even as wary rivals to make their competition more manageable, but as partners cooperating against a common enemy: Saddam. Presidents George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in Helsinki fully agreed on their objective: an unconditional Iraqi pullout...
...Baker's flustered response: "This is a delightful surprise to the extent that it's a surprise, and it's only a surprise to the extent that we anticipated." Bush pointed out that he had long advocated a unified Germany in NATO, "the sooner the better," but his response bore the air of a man slightly defensive about being left out of such a historic photo...
Scientists from London's Imperial Cancer Research Fund studied DNA from four men with an abnormal set of chromosomes: each bore an XX pairing that had a small piece of Y attached to one of the chromosomes. Segments of DNA cloned from the Y fragment were compared with genetic material from a wide range of male and female mammals, from chimps to tigers. Only one segment, which contained the SRY gene, was present in all the males and absent in all the females. Working with the ICRF team, London's Medical Research Council scientists showed that XY mice, which...
...coalition opposition group, managed the nowdubbed Velvet Revolution from, of all places, a theatre called the "Magic Lantern." Ash brilliantly juxtaposes the gravity of the political situation with the ironic humor of Havel and his band of writers, artists, economists and politicians. He tells of how his press credentials bore Havel's personal stamp--"a beaming pussy cat with the word 'Smile' across his chest!" A second credential bears a stamp with a beaming green frog and the words tres bien...