Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Take last Saturday. I was sitting in my room, doing one of those take-home labs that Physics 15b is wont to assign. I had just scared my finger on the soldering iron that I was less-than-deftly using when the phone rang. It was fellow Crimson sports editor Eric Brown...
...shared the motives he ascribes to them. By the time he gets to a discussion of Emily Dickinson's poetry, he has grown so vexed at the absence of hard evidence for his theory that he simply elevates the anxiety of influence into a universal truth: "Agon is the iron law of literature...
...watching, but that no one cared." Such was the frank admission of CIA Director R. James Woolsey regarding the most damaging security lapse in the agency's history: the breach that let Aldrich Ames compromise dozens of cia operations and fatally unmask key U.S. agents behind the Iron Curtain. Nonetheless, Woolsey announced that no one would be dismissed or demoted as a result of the spectacular fiasco; 11 current and retired officials will get only reprimands. The wrist slap triggered an outburst of congressional anger, including one suggestion that the CIA chief step down. It also added momentum...
...from venting its wrath on several men suspected of throwing the bomb, the crowd turned on the warehouse itself. And in a sample of what rich Haitians have predicted could engulf the entire country, the throng stripped the building bare. They took everything: steel drums, bags of cement, iron bars, even coils of wire -- but this time no Americans intervened...
...army. Even so, Haitian officers watched sullenly in the compound of Camp d'Application last week as the Americans dismantled Haiti's only arsenal of heavy weapons. Church bells joyfully tolled noon as U.S. vehicles towed the few Haitian armored cars and artillery pieces through the camp's wide iron gates, past a mural proclaiming HONNEUR, DISCIPLINE, COMPETENCE. Along the road leading to Port-au-Prince, a crowd of civilians applauded and cheered...