Word: nastier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton's quick-reaction team without much to react to. Both campaigns put new negative ads on the air: Clinton's commercials attacked Bush's poor handling of the economy, while Bush's ads lampooned Clinton's enthusiasm for raising taxes in Arkansas. The race is sure to get nastier: both camps consider this first wave of negative spots to be in the kinder and gentler category...
...trouble for human beings. Malarial mosquitoes, some historians think, contributed to the fall of ancient Greece. Europeans of medieval times were tormented by the insect Chaucer knew as the midge; the English word mosquito, from the Spanish for "little fly," appeared in the 16th century, along with new and nastier New World species. In the 1880s the Frenchman Ferdinand de Lesseps, fresh from the triumph of building the Suez Canal, was utterly vanquished in his heroic effort to dig a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, partly because thousands of the Europeans he brought with him fell victim to mosquito...
...creature ever to roam the earth: 10 m (33 ft.) long with 15-cm (6-in.) teeth and a voracious appetite. But fossilized claw, skull and jaw bones found in a quarry in eastern Utah point to a dinosaur that, while smaller than Tyrannosaurus, was probably a whole lot nastier. Labeled the "Utahraptor" until a more suitable scientific name can be found, the 7-m (20-ft.), one-ton beast is the largest specimen ever seen of a variety of dinosaur known as the Velociraptor, an upright, fast-moving carnivore that sported an enormous claw on the back of each...
...find it on TV, not on the McLaughlin Group or Crossfire, and certainly not in the placid features of Arsenio Hall or Bernard Shaw. It's been beaten back into the outlaw subcultures of rap and rock, where, precisely because it is taboo, it sells. And the nastier it is, the faster it moves off the shelves. As Ice-T asks in another song on the same album, "Goddamn what a brotha gotta do/ To get a message through/ To the red, white and blue...
...draining taxpayer dollars. He wants to slash the size of the Federal Government, freeze government regulations for two years and roll back half of Congress's recent pay hike. He also wants to clamp term limits on "those check-kiting, boodling Congressmen on Capitol Hill." In one of his nastier pitches, he attacks the National Endowment for the Arts as "that upholstered playpen of the arts and crafts auxiliary of the Eastern liberal Establishment...