Word: eruptions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Children are sensitive to the slightest hint of humiliation; they tend to be almost bizarrely shamed by anything in their parents' behavior that smacks of the unconventional. What's a kid to do, then, when his parents' entire lives constantly erupt in spectacles of global embarrassment...
...play of then-freshman goalie Tripp Tracy which stole the show. Tracy exhibited moves that made doctors cringe, but which made the Harvard fans erupt in joy, and his 30 saves were the biggest reason Harvard brought the 'Pot back to Cambridge...
...disklike base, he classifies as a colonial cnidarian, the phylum that includes jellyfish, sea anemones and sea pens. And Dickinsonia, which appears to have a clearly segmented body, Runnegar tentatively places in an ancestral group that later gave rise to roundworms and arthropods. The Cambrian explosion did not erupt out of the blue, argues Runnegar. "It's the continuation of a process that began long before...
Under the most optimistic assumptions, a comprehensive agreement could be reached by the middle of this week. But by then a Balkans battle inside the Beltway may erupt. House Republicans expect to force a vote this week on a measure that would bar any spending for the 20,000 American troops that would be the linchpin of the NATO implementation force. (That force would now include Russian soldiers, since Moscow agreed last week to put them essentially under NATO control.) "We're afraid Clinton will cut some kind of deal and our troops in Germany could be down there...
...that have traditionally attended mass action in Haiti are another, and they were notably absent from this election. In a country that had known only dictatorship and political bloodshed for 200 years, something heartening had occurred: a peaceful exercise in democracy. Only after the voting took place did violence erupt, when one candidate shot and killed his opponent...