Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...transept, workers uncovered shiny white slabs inscribed with the names of the Union dead, also covered by years of dirt...
HOLY COW! NOW I'VE HEARD EVERYthing--whining on the range by socialist cowboys who want more subsidies and no interference, thank you [COVER STORIES, Oct. 23]. Gimme a break! These ranchers get dirt-cheap grazing on public land. They get assistance on water tanks, fences and brush control, and they get help from the Agriculture Department. And then they scream about how much they hate Big Government. Sorry, folks, but it's time the free market was introduced into the West. Why should environmental groups be excluded from bidding on grazing rights? Open up the process...
...Senate Whitewater hearings, which have been digging for political pay dirt for months, may have found some. Armed with newly uncovered telephone records, Republican members grilled two close advisers of Hillary Rodham Clinton about conversations they had with the First Lady shortly after the suicide of Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster. The G.O.P. claims the phone records suggest the First Lady herself put a stop to a search of Foster's office in order to protect Whitewater records--an assertion the White House has long denied...
Memorial Hall is yet another prime example of a breathtaking work of architecture, currently under major construction. While the sight of tractors and the piles of dirt and rock may taint the picturesque beauty of our red brick, autumn-colored setting, we nevertheless greatly appreciate the tireless efforts dedicated towards the proper upkeeping of our collegiate kingdom...
THERE'S NOTHING MORE DEPRESSING than finding a guy as tough as nails and as mean as dirt," Norman Mailer once remarked. We have, Mailer thought, a deep, profoundly sentimental need to believe that a hard exterior invariably hides a sweet, yearning, essentially decent nature. The alternate idea--that toughness disguises nothing but more toughness--may be the more accurate take on reality. But it's also an intolerable one, especially in the movies, the basic business of which is to redeem us, for a couple of hours now and then, from our darker suspicions about human nature...