Word: patch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these days of reckoning, however, it is more likely that he will be remembered by cartoon depictions of him wearing a pirate's black eye patch. Though he reigned as one of Italy's premier financial magicians during the 1980s, he had become only the latest of more than 2,500 business leaders and politicians to be implicated in Italy's omnivorous corruption scandal. But having lost his empire, his power and now his honor, the thought of a prison cell was apparently too much for him. Lying on a bed in his 18th century Milan palazzo two weeks...
...Louis, Missouri, is braced for the worst as it awaits a possible record crest of 49 ft. for the Mississippi River this week. City workers continued to patch up the 52-ft. floodwall protecting the city, but with yet more thunderstorms in the forecast, they are unsure if the structure will hold. Meanwhile, after a five-day partisan battle, the House approved a nearly $3 billion relief package. Republicans insisted that any outlay for relief be matched by spending cuts. At week's end the Senate Appropriations Committee voted unanimously for a $4.7 billion relief bill...
...back on the road to success immediately. Luckily for Columbia, next week the studio is releasing In the Line of Fire, Clint Eastwood's entertaining, hugely commercial thriller, which will help the bosses forget this bad patch -- Arnold? Arnold who? -- and turn them back into blithe motion-picture geniuses, their jobs safe. "Remember," says an executive who knows Canton and Guber, "Guber is inextricably tied to this guy." Inextricably? "Yes," the bigwig confirms. "For a while, anyway...
...Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battle-ground, author Peter Svenson illuminates the importance of this small patch of land in the Shenandoah Valley of northwest Virginia. Svenson does not try to argue that Cross Keys was in some way the most important battlefield of the Civil War. Rather, he reveals how the very elements that make Cross Keys like so many other battlefields also make it unique. In his narrative, Cross Keys becomes a place where the "great themes" of American History were fought out by individuals with their own historical identities on a Sunday in June, 1862. The land...
...beautiful movement of the '70s, the proliferation of black characters on television shows during the '80s and the renascent black nationalist movement of the '90s, the prowhite message has not lost its power. In 1985 psychologist Darlene Powell-Hopson updated the Clarks' experiment using black and white Cabbage Patch dolls and got a virtually identical result: 65% of the black children preferred white dolls. "Black is dirty," one youngster explained. Powell-Hopson thinks the result would be the same if the test were repeated today...