Word: kudzu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Richard M. Nixon, tangled up in Watergate Kudzu, went on national TV and quit, "effective noon tomorrow." Nixon's public standing, already rivaling that of the Tatars among residents of the Russian steppes, crashed and burned...
...were released in New York City by a reader of Shakespeare bent on sharing with the New World every species mentioned by the bard. Today millions of starlings consume and defile our crops and terrorize native bluebirds. So too, we have inadvertently unleashed an invasion of plants, among them, kudzu, hydrilla and water hyacinth...
...Americans can live with any of these options. The main lesson we should take from our neighbor's troubles is not to import them here. Multiculturalism and bilingualism, once planted, grow like kudzu. Our struggles over our racist problem have lasted 200 years and included a Civil War. Let's not add problems that have made even Canada interesting...
...claims Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli intelligence officer who clings like kudzu to every new conspiracy theory that sprouts in the thicket of conflicting tales. Since the others aren't talking, even his wild charges get a wide audience. He was among the first to leak the details of secret U.S. arms sales to Iran back in 1986. He is one of the sources behind the stories about a purported "October surprise" hostage deal in the 1980 campaign. And now he has told Senate investigators that between 1986 and 1988 the Reagan Administration was secretly supporting shipments of arms...
...what U.S. farmers denounce as a scourge, the Japanese have long prized as a source of nutrition: Japan consumes 1,500 tons of kudzu starch yearly as an ingredient in gourmet foods, beverages and herbal medicines. Now, attracted by the suitable land and climate in the South, the Japanese food-processing giant Sakae Bio has bought 165 acres in Lee County, Ala., to cultivate the plant. The locals are scratching their heads, but as one banker in the county puts it, "You have to assume they know what they are doing...