Word: descent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have developed an entire ritual to accompany the day's climactic meal. The winter weather mandated certain adjustments, but I refused to allow nature to interfere with my happiness. I have Raynaud's Disease, a condition of bad circulation, which generally afflicts women of Northern and Western European descent. (My family hails from Germany). So, I need to guard my hands against excessive cold. It's sad that I still need to wear mittens in April...
...child, she filed an application with a public agency to find out who her birth mother was. Then she waited. And waited. Finally, this January she received a brief "nonidentifying" description of her mother. She was a folk singer born in the prairie town of Saskatoon, of Norwegian-Scottish descent, who suffered polio as a child. Encouraged by friends who had heard of Mitchell's search and who thought that she resembled the singer, Gibb found a Joni Mitchell Website and began clicking off the biographical details she found there: blue eyes, blond hair, long limbs, Saskatchewan. "There were like...
...that you are, you go around asking different people what they would like the headline to be in the newspapers the next day. Some would no doubt prefer "First African-American Wins the Masters." Others, on account of his mother's Thai origins, would like "First Man of Asian Descent Wins the Masters." Some in the younger set would probably want "Youngest Man Ever Wins Masters." But for some reason, I think Tiger would not pick any of these...
...story of Roger Tamraz, a U.S. citizen of Lebanese descent born in Cairo, as told in the Wall Street Journal last week, suggests just how far Democratic officials were willing to go to hide a quid and deliver a quo. Tamraz wanted to build his billion-dollar oil pipeline through the warring nations of Armenia and Azerbaijan. He sought U.S. blessing for the project to help secure financing, and with the aid of some State Department officials, arranged a meeting in June 1995 with NSC Central Asia specialist Sheila Heslin. She was not impressed with his pitch and didn...
...more involved games like "Descent" and "Marathon" serve the same purpose...