Word: grave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nearly died. Budapest was swept by a scarlet fever epidemic, and young Andras succumbed. He remembers waking up in the hospital and thinking to himself, "I'm dead. I'm in my grave looking up at the sky." The fever left a mark: his eardrums were perforated like a colander, the result of a middle-ear infection...
...world as we knew it has changed forever, and the American Century looks to conclude with a huge party, a cancan line of irrepressible bankers and impossibly rich computer nerds dancing on the grave of the business cycle, while politicians of all kinds sing the praises of a new economy that might let them be re-elected forever and ever, as long as people keep voting their pocketbook. So now what...
...first memory was of plastic, a warm synthetic smell touched off by sunlight on her stroller. She would also remember visits to the churchyard grave of the child her parents conceived just before her, a boy who had lived barely 10 hours. If he had survived, she often wondered, would she have existed? Or would her mother, having produced a male heir, have left her husband for another man earlier than she did, before Diana could be born? After her parents split up, Diana bravely declared that she would marry only once, and only for love, and never, ever divorce...
...instant history. As details trickle out about Lawrence, we all say how could we not know? Those selling ambassadorships, of course, don't want to know. And it's in the nature of lying that the victim remain fooled. Lawrence was a master. He took his lie to his grave...
...tale he unspools. An estimated 40% of American slaves arrived first at this spot. Confused, terrified, usually sick, they spent two weeks quarantined in "pest houses" or onboard ship. Those who got better sailed on to Charleston and bondage. Those who didn't turned the island into a mass grave. "This ground is soaked in blood," says Ball...