Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that would be rejected by Motel 6; and simple meals like baked beans or tuna casserole. And for the whole weekend she is supposed to be silent. But as she walks across the abbey's 2,200 acres, past the wheat fields and down by the river, or sits near a statue of the Madonna, watching white-tailed deer dance by and listening to bullfrogs, Nolan says she finds peace. "It's mine, just my time," she says. "I can sit, think and pray...
Around 30 House-leadership staff members were inside, cleaning up the week's business after the final big health-care vote, toasting their success with champagne. DeLay himself was back in his private office. His plainclothes guard, Special Agent John Gibson, 42, was sitting near the rear entrance when the normal merry chaos of the afternoon was punctured by sharp explosions in the hall. Gibson knew it was gunfire and had his hand on his hip as he moved toward the door. A leadership staff member yelled "Everybody get down, get down!" and pushed people under the desks and into...
...Senate chamber, but it was only after 1983, when a bomb when off on the Senate side, that certain corridors to the leadership offices were cordoned off, magnetometers set up at the entrances, building passes required for employees and reporters, anti-terrorist planters installed in the parking lots, streets near the Russell Office Building closed off and sweeps by bomb-sniffing dogs ordered. There have been proposals every so often to tighten security at such an obvious target; for instance, to close the Capitol plaza to the public and install a wrought-iron fence around the building's 130-acre...
...Emperor's new clothes were on display in Paris last week. But although none of the attendees of the fall couture shows were prepared to say the outfits were ridiculous--as usual--some were prepared to say the women were nearly naked. Nipples were one of the biggest accessories, and definitely the least expensive. The mad lads from Britain--Alexander McQueen for Givenchy, far left, and John Galliano for Christian Dior, middle left--were up to their usual high jinks, but they were usurped in wackiness by even newer kids with scissors--Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren, middle right...
...Bulls-obsessed Chicagoans--at least for the moment--with a distraction from their nervous preoccupation with the future of Michael Jordan and the rest of the world champion hoopsters. "The fans around here are crazy about Sosa," says Ron Stampley, manager of the Cubby Bear, a popular sports bar near Wrigley Field. "They cheer for him as loudly as they cheer for Jordan." Indeed, Sosa's slugging streak, along with wunderkind pitcher Kerry Wood's arm and first baseman Mark Grace's hot bat, is helping to make the long-hapless Cubs into contenders for the first time...