Word: newfound
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to functioning as an affirmation of newfound physical liberty, travel served a practical purpose: many blacks--primarily men, who were less constrained by family ties than women--took to the road in search of work. These journeys, made by foot and by freight train, gave rise to the figure of the male blues singer--a lone black man with a guitar, traveling the countryside singing about his life. This rural genre became known as country blues...
Perhaps all the newfound interactivity will work on our brains in more salutary ways. This is your brain on TV. And this is your brain on "Very Distributed Storytelling," as one futuristic project is called at M.I.T.'s Media Lab. Any questions...
...presidency may defy expectations and last its full term, some analysts say. Even so, Indonesia will change in ways that were impossible under Suharto's centralized control. The press has thrown off self-censorship, and the next step could be the legitimization of multiparty politics to accommodate the newfound sense of "people power." John Sidel, a lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, predicts, "You will see a great diversity in government, and all these different groups will be appealing to the people." The monopolies, nontariff barriers and nepotism that distorted the market process, says Emil...
...maybe not as campy as all that. After watching the original 1954 Japanese Gojira, Devlin and Emmerich came away with newfound respect for the old film. "It was not meant to be campy at all," says Devlin. "In fact, it was a mighty dramatic movie. Surprisingly, the special effects, done in the rain, in black-and-white, shot at night, were done very well, even by today's standards...
...some, like Laura Lawless '00, who felt that her "childhood had been curtailed by frequent trips away to compete," and that she had "lost hours with friends because of musical responsibilities," coming to Harvard provided a newfound sense of freedom. With a dearth of practice rooms and a lack of adequate lesson subsidies, though, fair Harvard holds no beacon of liberation to guide her music students...