Word: caved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actually Gingrich's staff that turned up the pressure on the exhausted number crunchers. This was because the Republicans also needed Clinton to endorse a CBO-approved plan, so they could claim they had got at least something out of him in return for what they considered their big cave-in, the agreement to reopen the government...
...taken 10 steps so the others could take five. It was the sort of leadership that earned him, in another venue, a chestful of medals and a withered right arm. Some freshmen could not believe their own House leader was deserting the cause. "There is not a need to cave," said an incredulous Todd Tiahrt, a freshman from Kansas. "All the issues we have been talking about for the past 12 months are still very important to us." But to others, Gingrich was simply facing reality. "We're drained and we're tired, and we're not moving ahead," said...
...exercise in nostalgia: looking back a few weeks or months and deciding which people and events are worth remembering. But this year the retro spirit took us back much farther than 1995. Jane Austen and the Beatles were back, and Bruce Springsteen returned to his roots. Discoveries in science (cave drawings in France) illuminated man's earliest days, and the big news in sports was comebacks (Northwestern?). Even in politics, Colin Powell harked back to an era when presidential candidates could emerge, Ikelike, untainted by the usual rough-and-tumble. Still, the year also had much that...
...REMBRANDT ON THE ROCKS: The discovery of dazzling drawings of rhinoceroses and other animals in a French cave suggests that prehistoric art did not mature in a simple linear fashion but may have been punctuated by the influence of individual geniuses. The images in the Chauvet cave date from 30,000 years ago, 12 to 18 millenniums before comparable ones at Lascaux, in France, and Altamira, in Spain, and much earlier than anyone thought possible for such realistic portraits...
...every discovery like the Maccabees' burial cave that doesn't pan out, there seems to be another that does. Few scholars believe that miracles like Moses' burning bush or Jesus' resurrection will ever be proved scientifically; they are, after all, supernatural events. Conversely, few doubt that the characters in the latter part of the Old Testament and most of the New - Nebuchadnezzar, Jeremiah, Jesus, Peter - really existed, though some will always doubt parts of their stories...