Word: mite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, certain cheeses naturally have cheese mites on their rinds. Those cheeses must be stored on the lowest shelves, or the mites will jump onto the mite-free cheeses...
...spur kids to purchase assault weapons. But it has inspired the kind of obsessive acquisitiveness not seen since--well, the Beanie Baby. When Pokemon was introduced in Japan in 1996, the characters immediately captivated the preteen set, particularly young boys. Pokemon creatures such as Pikachu (a yellow catlike mite) and Poliwhirl (a disk with bulging eyes) were soon presiding over a media juggernaut, including an animated TV show and trading cards, and appearing on everything from cell phones to hot-dog packages...
...TANKED (1988) Governor Michael Dukakis turns into a military mite...
Cambridge, I would venture, is a mite hard to know. But perhaps spending a summer here at least offers the opportunity to return to where we started and know ourselves for the first time. Or to begin the journey again...
...certainly express regret for the intemperate sack of Carthage. (Reparations optional.) Congress could withhold aid to Egypt until the Mubarak government sheds a few public tears for holding the ancient Israelites in bondage. And isn't it high time the new socialist government of France admitted it was a mite sorry for the heedlessness that left Louis XVI headless...