Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from scratch, using the seven-hour classic recipe (no freezing the dough)? Or Richie's sister Carol, "Our Lady of the Bikini Wax"? Rosie, the last-to-know wife, vows to get the answers first. A woman whose last task as a civilian was to grade papers on "The Gamut of Love in Pride and Prejudice" becomes an adventurer...
Speakers ran the gamut from neighborhood activists to residents of other municipalities speaking on behalf of their businesses. Happy Green said she attended to reiterate Harvard's position that the city manager's contract should be renewed...
...also discussed, in general, the various responsibilities that the College has been asking the houses to shoulder, which run the gamut from security to academics. It was in this larger context that I remarked that, while the Bok Center runs training sessions for teaching fellows and tutors, not all of the resident tutors in all of the houses are trained for all of the tasks that they may or may not be asked to carry...
Bitterness toward the entrenched Washington elite and anxiety over the economy have produced a bumper crop of unconventional challengers. Major-party candidates for Congress run the gamut from a gay Republican activist in Los Angeles to a former Black Panther in Chicago to a Wyoming ophthalmologist who promises to return to private life as soon as Congress passes health-care legislation. And many incumbents, who normally trot confidently to re- election, are running scared in the face of this unexpected assault. At least 150 newcomers are expected on Capitol Hill next year. That number includes 85 seats in the House...
Negative commercials have run the gamut from benign to sledgehammer. Kennedy ran a tape of Eisenhower's inability to recall anything significant that Nixon had done as Vice President. In 1964 Lyndon Johnson became the first candidate to use the words of his opponent's challengers in the primaries, replaying what they had said as they considered the horrific prospect of Barry Goldwater's ascendancy. Does anyone doubt that Bush will find some use for Paul Tsongas' derisive description of Clinton as a "pander bear...