Word: dish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...start with medicine. In 1928 the young Scottish researcher Alexander Fleming sloppily left a lab dish growing bacteria on a bench when he went on vacation. It got contaminated with a Penicillium mold spore, and when he returned, he noticed that the mold seemed to stop the growth of the germs. His serendipitous discovery would eventually save more lives than were lost in all the century's wars combined...
...Margaret Carlson, who usually writes about politicians, to order up dinner on the Web and have a party. The second half of that proposition went well; the first part makes for quite a tale. And despite a lot of coaxing to order only exotic items, Margaret wanted a safety dish and clicked for a ham. Perhaps covering politicians all these years...
Throughout the first half, Tinsley was more eager to pass the ball off than to create her own shot. Other than a beautiful dish to forward Wanda Almengot on a fast break, Tinsley was not much of a factor offensively...
...Crusaders got the lead to 17 before Harvard began working its offense, cutting the lead to 11 at the half after Gates hit a three-pointer and sophomore Lindsay Ryba hit a lay-up off an Ides dish...
...Stein is already crying. It is terribly discomforting to hear a voice so famously monotone disintegrate into squeaky phonemes. But as he talks about his father, the noted conservative economist who died two months ago, he loses it. The late Herbert Stein forced the Watergate to install a satellite dish in his apartment so he could watch his son's Comedy Central game show, Win Ben Stein's Money. "After every show, I'd call my father and ask him the questions," Stein says. "He'd always say he didn't know the ones I got wrong, even...