Word: helling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hell of a ride. And through it, we were all introduced to Bill Clinton, his extraordinary gifts and his equally extraordinary weaknesses. Often, they seemed inexorably linked. Only a candidate with Clinton's resilience and abiding faith in the virtue of his mission could have survived the double whammy of Gennifer Flowers and the draft-dodge charge during the New Hampshire primary. With energy and empathy, he explained his way out of the traps he had laid--a pattern that would become all too familiar in the coming years. I learned to be careful with Clinton's words...
When he was caught, he put all his chips on the same kind of artfully worded, misleading denials that had snatched him from the brink of disaster before. And for seven months he put his family, his friends, his staff and his supporters through hell...
...decades. "I've talked to seven-year-old kids who think when you're dead, you're just hanging out somewhere." And Paul Mones, a Portland, Ore., lawyer and a leading expert on young murderers, says, "Kids are naturally egocentric. Kids can be told they will go to hell, but they don't really think they'll go to hell. When kids lie about stealing a cookie, they don't feel bad like an adult...
...bitter medicine of a closing would not be Japan's alone to swallow. Whatever Obuchi does, most economists predict that Japan's crisis will get worse after O-bon. The festival has its ancient roots in the story of a Buddhist disciple who frees his mother from hell by offering food and prayers at his ancestors' graves. With their economy at stake, the Japanese can only hope that their own prayers do not go unanswered...
...luminaries lined up to wag the finger at their wayward President. "I am very disappointed in his personal conduct," said Dick Gephardt. "My trust in his credibility has been shattered," lamented Senator Dianne Feinstein of California -- previously one of the President's most vocal defenders, now a vituperative detractor. Hell hath no fury like a congresswoman scorned...