Word: mud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wage a just war, to build a Great Society, to topple an "evil empire." Great men, when they take custody of the presidency, make the Oval Office shine, stake their claim to a portrait on the creamy walls. Lesser men, at the very least, are expected not to smear mud on them. When Bill Clinton got the keys six years ago, the voters knew he brought a lot of debris with him, joints he didn't inhale and truths he didn't tell and women he hadn't slept with ("They were awake at the time," his aides privately explained...
...cover the pope rather than jetting back to Washington, he would have had to seek asylum from the wrath of his employers. The best line of the night came from an amazingly calm Mike McCurry, on remote from the White House briefing room, who ascribed Air Force One's mud delay to a "conspiracy under the right wing." (Scooping Leno with the joke, it turned out). In the end, the point Jeff Greenfield failed to make, despite a poll showing that 72 percent think there's "too much" coverage of Sexgate was: We're only doing it for you, dear...
...than that. In the moments between sleeping and waking, between finishing the paper and handing it in, between studying for the test and taking it, between hard work and future failure or success--and maybe even between childhood and adulthood--you can get stuck in time, like a thick mud that grabs hold of your foot as you're stepping with the other foot onto solid ground. You can't think about "nothing" at that moment, because "nothing" is exactly what you fear the most, that somehow you won't make it from Point A to Point B, that...
...Elway Against Favre (CNNSI) -- Pro football's postseason tournament is down to two after Green Bay dominated the Niners in a 23-10 win in the Candlestick ? er, 3Com ? mud. The Broncos outlasted the Steelers...
...story monastery beside a winding path. They were even more taken aback when a two-year-old boy greeted them with familiarity and addressed their leader, disguised as a servant, by the name of his temple in distant Lhasa. The mischievous toddler, who slept in the kitchen of a mud-and-stone house, would become the 14th Dalai Lama...