Word: legging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MINISTRY OF MORALS. Women in Saudi Arabia who drive cars or show too much leg are routinely persecuted by the mutawain, the country's dreaded "morals police." Now non-Muslim women are rejoicing at a rumor that a U.S. servicewoman pulled her 9-mm sidearm on a mutawain zealot who tried to stop her from driving a military vehicle near the Dhahran air base. The mutawain officer has reportedly been suspended...
...Washington Redskins also refuse to be taken to D.C. General--the hospital just one block away from RFK stadium. When Joe Theisman broke his leg on Monday Night Football, he was air-lifted far away from the predominantly poor and Black patients at D.C. General to an isolated hospital in the suburbs. A fan injured in the stands that same night went you-know-where...
...irony is that the "new truths" of the plains are as old as the crumbling diaries of the first explorers. Those early wanderers lumped the plains into something labeled the "great American desert." In 1931 Texas historian Walter Prescott Webb wrote, "East of the Mississippi, civilization stood on three legs -- land, water and timber; west of the Mississippi, not one but two of these legs were withdrawn -- water and timber -- and civilization was left on one leg -- land. It is small wonder that it toppled over in temporary failure." The Poppers simply confirmed Webb...
...Republicans, meanwhile, ran a more civil campaign. Pierce and Weld never stooped to the name-calling of Bellotti, Silber and Lt. Gov. Evelyn Murphy. As a result, Weld enters the final leg of the race relatively unscathed...
Horner devotes much of his time to presenting dinosaurs as they lived day by day. At the Museum of the Rockies on Sept. 15, he will open a new dinosaur / hall in which, risking heresy, there will be nothing scary. An orodromeus scratches its jaw with a hind leg, and a maiasaur sits like a huge, impassive camel. In a corner a pterosaur stands on the ground, looking like an Audubon heron in a fun-house mirror. "I wanted the exhibits to portray animals," says Horner, "not just single events of aggression...