Word: crushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believed he was a good enough, if not perfect, man, prone to temptation but strong enough to lead without disgracing himself or the nation? Our questions may never be fully answered. But if we, as individuals and as a citizenry, lose our reason and dignity in the rush to crush this man, all of us will need to ask for forgiveness...
...chaos. Carpenter-McMillan had promised reporters that Jones would make a brief statement on the way into Bennett's office. That proved impossible: though police had cordoned off the front entrances to Bennett's office, swarms of reporters and camera crews hovered at all corners of the building. The crush when Jones and her husband arrived at the back entrance was so great that they were swept indoors without a word. But Carpenter-McMillan managed a few solemn ones for the solemn occasion: Jones, she said, had told her she felt proud to know "that a little girl from Arkansas...
...Webber Wright. A good thing too, because a reporter from CBS tracked Lewinsky down at her mother's apartment in the Watergate hotel. Politely, she declined to comment. Had she needed to leave the building today, the media feeding frenzy would have made yesterday's Kenneth Starr camera-crew-crush look like Sunday brunch...
What else is there to say about a team that has the ability to crush a team--Dartmouth--by six goals one night only to lose to another--Clarkson--by 11 the next...
...they believe. Soon, they say, the Patriarch will appear with the Ark to pronounce his blessing. Calmly, serenely, the pilgrims wait. By noon, the Patriarch has come and gone in a brisk flourish of gilded robes. There is no Ark, and the blessing is delivered swiftly amid a crush of baton-swinging soldiers and security guards. But the pilgrims do not mind, says a kneeling man. "Here, even just waiting is holy...