Word: cold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Washington, D.C., like the rest of the nation marked the occasion with concerts, parades and fireworks--only more so. While the official estimate in area papers was "several hundred thousand," that's kind of like saying Mt. Everest is big, or Antarctica is cold, or that the Federal Government has a bureaucracy. By the start of the fireworks at nightfall, the Mall was covered by a sea of people extending from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to the steps of the Capitol nearly three miles away...
Never before had inflation hit so hard and so fast. Hot dogs became three dollar beef ingots on a bun. Small bottles of ice-cold water now cost top dollar. Or rather two top dollars...
...friends and I made our way to the base of the Washington Monument to visit the wall of Sani-johns. Stretching far and wide, the off-white rows looked like the horizontal counterpart to the more upstanding monument. Unfortunately, with nearly five-hundred thousand thirsty visitors each drinking ice-cold bottles of water (nearly one million dollars into the US economy!), even a horizontal monument couldn't accommodate the frantic crowds that gathered...
...swish, a swoosh, the snick-snack-snick of dueling blades--the nice thing about swordplay is that it doesn't make a lot of noise. When cold steel is their weapon of choice, men can actually exchange snappy dialogue while engaging in mortal combat. Better still, when heroism and villainy go at it mano a mano, a certain clearly identifiable humanity as well as a certain cinematic grace and fluidity is imparted to their conflicts...