Word: downwardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson's Jo and junior Sandie Stringfellow ended Harvard's downward slide with a tie for first in the 50 meter freestyle in a time...
Year after year, Schwartz looked handsome and sturdy. All the while, his T cells ticked downward. In 1992, when they dipped below 500--the normal level is around 1,000--Schwartz's doctor put him on AZT, one of the few drugs then available that attack the virus directly. Both understood that it would fail after a while. Later Schwartz added 3TC, another antiviral. AIDS took a first cuff at him anyway. He began experiencing memory loss and having difficulty concentrating. Every few weeks, something that felt like the flu would send him to bed for days. In the summer...
...knee-jerk tendency at year's end is to look back and decry the 12 months at hand as the most dismal, most indicative of civilization's downward arc since, well, the 12 months before this. 1996, with enough depressing cultural offerings to warm a pessimist's heart, may not change a Scrooge's mind on this score. Perhaps 1996 will even be remembered as the year of the somewhat desperate exclamation point: That Thing You Do! Suddenly Susan! Lamar...
Someone who sees the society in an irreversible downward spiral will presumably take it for granted that even if young people gave up video games and mindless sitcoms as well as comic books and rock music, it would only be because they'd found something dumber-- sewing their toes together in an ornamental fashion, maybe, or eating dirt. He'd respond to the stories I saw with a weary "So what...
...always said milk was good for you. But Mom hasn't been heeding her own advice. For decades, milk consumption has trickled downward while that of cola has nearly tripled. Among beverages, milk ranks fourth in popularity after soft drinks, coffee and beer...