Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chewing on an unlit cigar the size of a flashlight, constantly jabbed at Gallo's "jug wine" reputation and drew a rebuke from the judge when he derided Gallo as the company whose wines "fry people's brains." Furth is in the business too: he owns the widely acclaimed Chalk Hill Winery...
...unknown until five months ago, Kabila's name has now become a household word. His face is emblazoned on the front page of newspapers all over Zaire, often accompanied by shrill headlines like THE BEGINNING OF THE END! At colleges in the capital, students have scrawled his name in chalk on the doors of their dorm rooms. The entire country appears to be monitoring his progress with a near religious sense of anticipation. "We are all just waiting for Kabila," declares one woman in Kinshasa. "He is like Jesus Christ...
Before we chalk this difference up to the nobler impulses of journalists past, let's acknowledge some history. Broadcast journalism came of age on radio in the late 1930s, when a generation of brilliant radio correspondents chronicled the world's descent into war--news as significant as it was compelling. When the new medium of television came into our living rooms, the news was driven by similar stories: the Korean War, McCarthyism, Vietnam, Watergate. All were stories of the most traditional sort, yet all possessed great drama...
...fact, many science concentrators gaze to front of their section only to discover an undergraduate Teaching Fellow wielding the chalk: someone not much older--maybe even younger--than themselves...
...Parents may no longer chalk up a bad case of the "TERRIBLE TWOS" to a kid's inherent temperament. Researchers now say the fault may lie with the adults. Parents with high levels of anxiety, hostility and work stress are more likely to produce tear-your-hair-out two-year-olds...