Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Union address with live commentary. When you have to make self-deprecating remarks in that address about yarfing at a state dinner. When you go to New Hampshire and get so giddy with that down-home-in-Texas crap that you babble obtusely about the "Nitty Ditty Gritty Nitty Dirt Band...
Overall, Arkansas remains a dirt-poor state, but during Clinton's tenure it has been rising, relative to the other 49, slowly but measurably in some rankings of well-being. In a 1991 poll, the nation's Governors were asked which collegue they would rate the most effective; Clinton got more votes (39%) than anyone else. That, however, is not necessarily an omen of national success. Two years before the last presidential election, the same accolade went to Dukakis...
...assaulting foreigners in Germany to sedately dressed middle-aged couples dining off lace tablecloths at a banquet outside Amiens -- under a poster urging the eviction of immigrants from France. Their leaders include old nobility, yuppie types, an ex- paratrooper who boasts of being born in a house with a dirt floor, and former communists. But whatever their appearance or origin, the far-right- wingers who are emerging across the European continent share an alarming attitude, if not exactly an ideology: a virulent nationalism expressed mainly as raw hatred of foreigners, particularly immigrants. They also share momentum: West and East, their...
...three of his sons had done some digging at the Scharf crash site. They trekked to Suoi Pai from their village on the other side of the mountain and made a few small excavations on either side of the plot that someone else had already uncovered. Sifting through the dirt from the earlier dig, Phe says, he found a zipper "still working" and some eyelets from a boot. A tantalizing lead, but, as is so often the case in these investigations, another dead end. On the way back down the mountain, says Phe, his sons threw the evidence away because...
...latest FBI-centered conspiracy-theory book Act of Treason: The Role of J. Edgar Hoover in the Assassination of President Kennedy. The author, Texas attorney Mark North, accuses Hoover of deliberately withholding knowledge of a Mafia assassination plot against J.F.K. because he hated the Kennedy brothers and had enough dirt on L.B.J. to control him. But North's accumulation of documentary evidence of the ugly blackmail intrigues Hoover was weaving in the cellars of Camelot is perhaps even more damning than the allegations of treason...