Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...center of the war's vast changes was the military--transformed by the nation into a colossus and, in turn, transforming the nation into a superpower. From an Army of 1.7 million and a Navy of 160,000 on the eve of Pearl Harbor, America's armed forces grew to 12.3 million men and women...
...Berger should have known they were handling a booby-trapped assignment that could explode in their faces. Americans are always reluctant to get into foreign wars, preferring neutrality and shrinking from the shedding of blood, even the enemy's. They wanted to stay out of World War II until Pearl Harbor made the choices crystal clear. Even in 1991, with 500,000 troops poised in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Senate voted only 52 to 47 in favor of attacking Saddam to drive him out of Kuwait. Americans don't like the mission to Bosnia, and they hated the intervention...
Third time's a charm: "227" (consider this: have you ever seen the headstrong, vain Blair Warren, Blanche Deveroe and Sandra Clark [a.k.a. Jackee] at the same place at the same time? How about the wise-cracking grannies Edna Garrett, Sophia Petrillo and Pearl Shay? Coincidence? I think...
...want Vivaldi or Wagner or Lloyd Webber, go figure skating. Snowboarding's sound tracks are different. Last week at the Olympic snowboard park, as riders launched into the air like skateboarders in the 120-m halfpipe course, Pearl Jam and Metallica ruled. Several riders chose as their personal song the rap group Cypress Hill's Hits from the Bong. That was appropriate. The International Olympic Committee had been hoping to create a buzz and draw in a generation of sports fans used to pierced noses when it added snowboarding as a full-medal sport to the Nagano Games. And buzz...
...think women have gained a lot of respect in the field of science, and I do not feel that any distinction is made between [the] performances of males and females," Jodie L. Pearl '01 says...