Word: clashed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...willfully perverse Wildean wit suffered the rude shock of having to defend itself under pitiless legal questioning. Asked if something he has written is true, Wilde replies, "I rarely think anything I write is true." He was a victim, of course, of Victorian prudery but also of the perennial clash between the aesthetic and the moral, the realm of art and the realm of life. Wilde realizes too late that it's an unfair fight. "One says things flippantly," he apologizes wanly at one point, "when one ought to speak more seriously." Has an artist ever spoken a sadder epitaph...
...lives and property to the storms than any other state. And May is the cruelest month for tornadoes. Of all the twisters recorded in the past 44 years, more than 21% hit in May. People in central Texas are used to spring tempests, when cold fronts from the north clash with warm, wet Gulf weather. They know enough to find a ditch to lie in, or a sturdy, windowless room in the center of the house, preferably under a mattress or in a bathtub. And the citizens of Jarrell, a small town 42 miles up the interstate from Austin...
...evacuation efforts are taking place amid continued intensive fighting between militiamen loyal to deposed military leader Gen. Denis Sassou-Nguesso and beleagured troops loyal to President Pascal Lissouba who are struggling for control of Brazzaville. Bracing itself for the worst, France, which has already lost one soldier in the clash, today deployed roughly 500 soldiers, equipped with armed vehicles, to Brazzaville in an effort to defend stranded French civilians and about 550 foreign residents who have taken refuge in the French embassy. While Lissouba?s troops defended their positions south of the capital city, the 5,000-member militia expanded...
Although he won the chair after a clash with fellow Democrats, many of Birmingham's colleagues say that his rapid ascendance is a tribute to his new approach to doing business in the State House...
...Kabila's Alliance of Democratic Forces have surged across two-thirds of the vast nation, while Mobutu's untrained and underpaid soldiers ran away from town after town or laid down their weapons and cheered the new regime. International diplomats stepped in last week to avert a final clash as the rebels' relentless offensive, apparently unopposed, neared the capital of Kinshasa...