Word: land
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sudden gunfire between Muslims and Serbs 30 yards from their table brought the elegant courses to a rapid halt. Bullets whizzed past the window as Galbraith and Silajdzic fled the area in an armored land rover...
...John Finley's humanities class, we learnedabout ancient Athens and the promise and perils ofdemocracy. We looked at ancient Greece and saw thechoice facing America: Will we be land-locked,walled, authoritarian Sparta, or theoutward-looking, democratic Athens? Can we havethe courage to be an open society, challenged andstrengthened by other cultures? Can we be daringand venture out to meet the future, rather thanlet it come...
Alan K. Simpson, director of the Institute of Politics (IOP), gave a second introduction, describing Bush as a "force of good in this land...
...novel, Tales of the South Pacific, for fiction, Margaret Clapp for her biography Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow, Bernard De Voto for his historical work, Across the Wide Missouri. The Nobel Prize for Literature went to T.S. Eliot '10, well-known for his poetry collections, including The Waste Land (1922) and Ash Wednesday...
...rain-starved Mexico continued to send clouds of smoke into the U.S., spreading haze from Houston to Denver. But if El Nino's immediate impact on people has been hard to miss, there are equally important, if less obvious consequences for wildlife. In the oceans as well as on land, many animals are struggling to find enough to eat, while others--including disease-bearing rodents and insects--are unexpectedly flourishing...