Word: lived
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when it happens Kasparov should be in good shape. Unlike many American athletes who live on their laurels after they leave professional sports, Kasparov may have a career in politics looming ahead...
...company with values like Exxon's or Union Carbide's? Does it finance "development" projects that lead to destruction of native cultures and rainforests? Does it exploit laborers such as native American migrant farm workers? By making far-sighted choices about who we work for and how we live, we can help to bring about the changes which must by made if we are to move beyond this time of crisis and create a permanently sustainable way of life. Sarah K. Highland
...domestic violence in Othello, Wash., increased 45%, and criminal arrests went up 22%, according to one study. The most profound impact is a new sense of vulnerability. Victims wonder when disaster will strike again and conjure up fresh calamities. "Disasters like earthquakes challenge a fundamental fantasy that we live with: that we're immortal," explains psychiatrist David Spiegel of Stanford University's School of Medicine...
...cope with disaster, may be particularly troubled by the grim sights and smells. "I don't care how professional your firemen and policemen are," says Jim Worlund, an Oakland emergency planner, referring to an amputation performed on a victim on the collapsed Nimitz Freeway, "that's hard to live with." Dr. Edward McCarroll of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington last year conducted a survey of 150 military and civilian personnel who participated in rescue efforts at military disasters. He found that many were overwhelmed when they discovered a body that resembled them or when they handled...
Some performers live in memory as icons of their eras -- Marilyn Monroe with her air-blown skirt at thigh level, or Louise Brooks of the silents, purring beneath a helmet of slinky black hair. Particularly to the French, there is more than one archetypical image of Josephine Baker, who danced her way out of the hovels of East St. Louis to become the world's first black international star. From the Roaring Twenties came a Baker persona at once erotic and comic: prancing topless on a Paris music-hall stage, with eyes crossed as if to spoof her naked sensuality...