Word: humblest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...debate, I stormed out in a fit of anger. I am truly and deeply sorry to both Professors Kennedy and Binswanger, and I hope they, the audience and the moderator Mr. Smith will accept my humblest apologies. --Thomas J. Kelleher...
Colin Powell, when the pressure was at its highest, didn't fail. He achieved the kind of success of which legends are made. He won a war for America. From the humblest of beginnings, he has gone on to become a figure who should be lionized in our history books (though I have a sneaking suspicion that, thirty years from now, schoolchildren will be taught that Schwartzkopf was a hero and Powell will be an historical footnote, if he's lucky...
...meek as it does the mighty. The humpback whale and the black rhinoceros enjoy no greater protection than the noonday snail and the lakeside daisy. Recently an inch-long unpigmented eyeless shrimp found in a sinkhole near Gainesville, Fla., joined the ranks of the imperiled. In shielding the humblest species, the act expresses its highest reverence for diversity, and has evolved into an almost sacred covenant defining the nation's relationship with nature...
...Humblest Billionaires. Pickup-truck-driving Sam Walton, 69, built his Wal-Mart discount chain from 276 stores at the decade's start to 1,379 locations by the end. When the '87 crash temporarily erased $2 billion of his personal fortune, he quipped, "It's paper anyway. It was paper when we started, and it's paper afterward." Warren Buffett, 59, the cowlicked Oracle of Omaha, built a $7 billion fortune on Wall Street by investing the old-fashioned way: buying stock and holding it. Said Buffett: "The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves...
Museums in Brunswick and Munich have bought some of the old clunkers to preserve what is perhaps the humblest symbol of one of the most extraordinary years in German history. Concluded Auto Motor und Sport: "The plain Beetle became a symbol of our economic miracle. The Trabant, its simple counterpart from the East, gave the first impulse to an even greater miracle." Proving, of course, that looks aren't everything...