Word: mucking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conservatives who have been chortling in anticipation since hearing about Paula Corbin Jones' accusations in February, the question for the mainstream media is, What took you so long? To liberals who label the charges unsubstantiated and irrelevant, the question is, Why are you raking up this muck? Both sides are right in perceiving widespread journalistic aversion to the story. That reluctance involves ethical and gender issues that go far beyond partisanship...
...damage has not reached Treasury Secretary Bentsen. Scrambling to distance himself from the rising muck, he ordered his employees to have no more contact with the White House about Whitewater and asked the Office of Government Ethics to review the earlier contacts...
...those who prefer to think in post-modern terms, Brazil offers the high and the low, especially when it merges the ideals of romantic love with a perpetual state of rut. The results include "the muck of the psyche," where "sex is nature's dirty work" and "perversity, like chastity, overcomes the bestial drive." The couple's caves of love take many forms: the leafy median of a busy highway, glittering condominium apartments, primitive gold- mining camps and the floor of the Amazon. The sacred and the profane are part of the same ooze. Lyricism mingles with basic Anglo-Saxon...
...favored Brown's offensive scheme, which featured a duo of speedy attackers able to outrun the Crimson defenders through the muck for several scoring opportunities...
...simple logo, and all the pertinent information. A far cry from the font-crazy ravings of today that, in their witty enthusiasm, often leave off important pieces of information. There are too many organizations promoting too many things. As students sink in information overload, organization's sink into the muck of cheap puns. Their audience, ever more weary of the insipid posters and T-shirts that have become inescapable, get even harder to reach. And so the cycle continues...