Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kinder, gentler nation. It was a nice touch, if somewhat undermined by the negative campaign tactics he used to needle his main challenger, a hardworking and agile -- maybe too agile -- politician who called for "change" at every turn and struck voters as not entirely trustworthy. The race was a cliff-hanger right up to election...
Part way up we came to a high cliff and in its face were niches . . . and in some of them we found balls of a glistening substance looking like pieces of variegated candy . . . it was evidently food of some sort, and we found it sweet but sickish, and those who were hungry, making a good meal of it, were a little troubled with nausea afterwards...
Radio talk-show host Cliff Kincaid twice called Connie Chung, the prominent Asian-American television reporter and anchor, "Connie Chink" while on the air, and he claimed that is "common slang and 'perfectly acceptable language...
...bony, big-eyed, broad-mouthed face without envisioning him atop a tractor. He is athletic but not graceful, a meat-and-potatoes player who got ahead by hard work. Says ex-champion turned TV commentator Fred Stolle: "Grit and determination, they're his trademarks." Adds Stolle's broadcast partner Cliff Drysdale: "Courier is a bulldog...
...addition, members of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) allege another all-female named the Cliff was created this year...