Word: icon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unthinkable is now being thought. Political observers believe that Republican entrepreneur W. Mitt Romney could unseat 32-year Senator and Democratic icon Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 in the November election...
Coles stated clearly that if his request was rejected, Harvard would be losing a University icon...
...fact, Romney has outpaced the Democratic icon's fundraising efforts throughout the summer...
Before they grow up, these children can become walking weapons. One very mean little boy didn't grow up, so he became an icon instead. The crimes he committed -- and those he suffered -- shook the country's conscience in a way that violent acts with far larger body counts no longer do. "If ever there was a case where the kid's future was predictable, it was this case," says Cook County public guardian Patrick Murphy. "What you've got here is a kid who was made and turned into a sociopath by the time he was three years...
After another day in Sudan, Carter returned to Johannesburg. Coincidentally, the New York Times, which was looking for pictures of Sudan, bought his photograph and ran it on March 26, 1993. The picture immediately became an icon of Africa's anguish. Hundreds of people wrote and called the Times asking what had happened to the child (the paper reported that it was not known whether she reached the feeding center); and papers around the world reproduced the photo. Friends and colleagues complimented Carter on his feat. His self-confidence climbed...