Word: pelt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...credit as a Cal Coolidge conservative, President Bush does not interfere with the internal affairs of a sovereign nation, the United States. Since all agree that the country's internal affairs are in woeful shape, this should give the Democrats a fine opportunity to pelt him with rotten fruit and dead cats in the most important political yard sale of the quadrennium, next February's New Hampshire primary. Here in New Hampshire, however, we are looking at our watches and asking, "What Democrats? What primary...
...Chinese man with the cruel face was adamant. He would not show the visitor the panda pelt being offered for sale without a $10,000 deposit. But perhaps she would be interested in a better deal: two live young pandas, chained and ready to go, for just $112,000. Of course, he had leopard and tiger pelts as well, if she were interested. Eight smugglers gathered around them in the dimly lighted, smoke-filled room in Quanzhou, an ancient seaport on the narrow waterway between mainland China and Taiwan; each one was seeking a $19,000 cut just for witnessing...
Some scientists are still predicting that smoke from the gulf could disrupt the monsoon in the Indian subcontinent and pelt rich croplands there with acid rain. Nonsense, say scientists in New Delhi. Acidic pollutants would probably be neutralized by dust in the Indian air, which tends to be alkaline. Besides, observers have yet to see traces of smoke, and certainly nothing that would disrupt the subcontinent's weather patterns. "The monsoon is too large and powerful a global phenomenon to be affected by one local event," says Vasant Gowariker, a monsoon expert at India's Department of Science and Technology...
...dramatist's lecture to the intellectual elite of his day. The playwright stood in front of the audience and began to clang a cowbell. The crowd chuckled appreciatively. He kept on clanging. The crowd began to shift nervously in their seats. He kept on clanging. The crowd began to pelt him with rotten meat...
...stops at Wellesley at 12:30 a.m., and everyone clears out. Most of the men who get off have bags with them that probably contain a change of clothing. Big drops of rain pelt the exiting passengers. Women sprint off as soon as they...