Word: mud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sells us on the idea that life stinks when you're at the bottom. The mud of American society is filled with salesmen. They make little money, fight insanely hard for it and go home with no pride at the end of the day. Pacino, in the role of Roma, has made it to the top of this dung heap...
...forests, deep and dangerous as they were, also defined existence. Wood kindled forges and kept alive the hearths of the mud-and-thatch huts of the serfs. Peasants fattened their hogs on forest acorns (pork was crucial to basic subsistence in the cold of winter), and wild berries helped supplement the meager diet. In a world without sugar, honey from forest swarms provided the only sweetness for food or drink. The pleasures of the serfs were few and simple: earthy lovemaking and occasional dances and fests...
...success. Consider the state of play till now and what the nation will probably see this month -- on television, on the stump and especially in the debates. To date, none of the attacks on Bill Clinton's character have stuck. Voters' fears about the economy have outlasted the mud. "We have absolutely no credibility on domestic matters," concedes a Bush aide, "and Clinton is seen as Reagan, as a guy who knows where he wants to go even if all the details don't compute exactly. That's why he's leading; that's why we're headed for exile...
...most significant discovery was a mud-brick arched gateway measuring more than 12 feet high. Two other gateways had been found at other sites, but the Ashkelon arch dates to 1900 B.C.E., making it the oldest monumental arch ever found...
...finding convinces us that the two later arched gateways were not abnormalities but continuations of the very highly developed tradition of constructing arches and vaults with mud-bricks practiced by the Canaanites and Syrians," Stager said last week...