Word: gropes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ramzi Ahmed Yousef showed, drug traffickers, terrorists, nuclear smugglers, money launderers and regional warlords aren't found on the diplomatic circuit. To penetrate the new threat, unconventional covers are needed. Indeed, President Clinton's newly nominated CIA spymaster--Air Force General Michael P.C. Carns--will have to continue to grope through the murky new world of espionage. ``General Carns will face a challenge,'' Clinton said last week. ``The cold war is over, but many new dangers have taken its place...
Some modern terms are not as new as one might think. Teenagers who grope (fondle) may be surprised to learn that lovers were groping in the 14th century. Blacks who believe that bad (for good) is freshly minted will find its coinage dates to 1897. In early-18th century England, a female prostitute was gay; not until the 1930s did gay begin to become associated with male homosexuality...
...help much to tell them the "root causes" are even more intractable problems like joblessness, family disintegration or drugs. But the solution they are most inclined to reach for, more prisons, has a dismal record when it comes to reducing crime. (See following story.) So Congress and the states grope for the mixture of punishment and incentive that will take the pressure off for a while...
...conservative party's "young princes" in line for future leadership, Olmert joined 49 other Knesset members in voting against the Israel-P.L.O. accord. His ascension has ignited speculation that his right- wing stance could turn the city into a flashpoint between Arabs and Jews as both grope toward some kind of accommodation. The peace negotiations have already hit their first snag over just how far Israeli troops will withdraw from Jericho and the Gaza Strip while still protecting Jewish settlements...
...most memorable is Leete, which begins in darkness with an amatory grope in a formal garden and ends in darkness as a new bride goes off to her rough-hewn, rural marriage bed. This journey is made by a daughter of a highborn member of Parliament to avoid being a pawn in political maneuverings by her father (played with poignancy and ruthlessness by artistic director Newton). She rejects a lord in favor of the family gardener, a sweet-natured man whose heart belongs, hopelessly, to her sister-in-law. The deliberately oblique text may frustrate audiences who want to know...