Word: flanks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...College added new classes, includingcamouflage, navigation and extra physics and math,to prepare students for war. According to theyearbook, an athletic program--"an absurdpotpourri of push-ups and flank movements"--wasrequired for students in the expectation that mostwould soon be in military service...
...June 6, just after midnight, 16,000 paratroopers from the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne divisions dropped chaotically into the dark coastal countryside to protect the western flank of the incoming army against counterattacks. Lost in low clouds, many of the planes missed their drop sites by miles, but the scattered paratroopers, snapping cricket noisemakers to find each other, gradually regrouped and moved toward the beach. An additional 8,000 men from the British 6th Airborne jumped in to guard the eastern flank, catching the Germans guarding key bridges by complete surprise...
Even before Berlusconi could savor his triumph, however, rifts opened in his fragile odd-bedfellows alliance. The federalists of the Northern League, weary of watching their tax money leave the region, yearn to hive off Italy's rich north from its impoverished south. But on the opposite flank, followers of the National Alliance prefer a unified Italian state and support the centralist policies of Benito Mussolini. Early Tuesday in Rome's Piazza del Popolo, a traditional rallying point, hundreds of admirers threw stiff-armed salutes and shouted, "Duce!" -- the chant that greeted Mussolini seven decades ago. Three days later, Fini...
...America knows who Barney is," says Standard & Poor's toy analyst Paul Valentine. Next year Hasbro intends to market an 18- in.-tall talking Barney. Plans for a network-TV special, a Barney movie, a line of books and a record deal are all in the works. Watch your flank, Big Bird...
Such marauding influence is as yet undetected, but repeated exposure must surely dent the structure of the brain. To further our misery, the other flank is being assailed by the composite regurgitations of academe, and its sinful neologisms. Scientists have every right to spend all their time lolling in cafes thinking up fresh words: all those spanking new particles and objects have to be called something. But the sewage of cultural theory and philosophy is a pernicious influence, taking your average happy noun ('problem'), and disfiguring it with a meaningless suffix. Take a few more such words; apply prefixes...