Word: brush
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rival clans became too blatant to ignore, but the level of its contributions had been sinking steadily. Now that the cold war is over, Third World conflicts no longer figure as potential victories or losses for the U.S. or the Soviet Union, ironically making the world safer for brush-fire wars and insurrections...
...card Kuwaiti version of gin rummy, and recall receiving Iraqi television transmissions at home in Kuwait. "Saddam was on all the time," says a Kuwaiti minister. "On any given day you could see him instructing women on how to make tomato paste, or children on how to brush their teeth. It was some of the best comedy around...
HARVARD'S brush with the law forced University officials to essentially confess to an accusation that they have long brushed aside--that many athletes admitted to Harvard are substantially less qualified than the rest of the student body. Although the University has been loathe to release specific figures in the past, casual observation reveals the nasty truth that a "jock" sub-culture exists at the nation's most prestigious academic institution. Admittedly, Harvard is not Oklahoma University. Nevertheless, one of Harvard's outstanding hockey players told a Crimson reporter two years ago that he was "not an Ivy League kind...
Since then, my life has become an exercise in damage control. I am afraid to brush my hair, to shower, to do anything that may disturb the few remaining wisps that are my only reminder of a hair-filled childhood long, long...
...York's plunge into chaos cannot be blamed on Dinkins, who has been in office for only nine months. In fact, he has inherited the whirlwind sown by decades of benign neglect, misplaced priorities and outright incompetence at every level of government. If during the city's close brush with bankruptcy during the 1970s Gerald Ford was willing to let New York drop dead, the Reagan Administration seemed eager to bury it. Since 1980, cutbacks in federal aid have cost New York billions, with funds for subsidized housing alone dropping $16 billion. Despite a series of state and local levies...