Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...auxiliary staffer of Peninsula, a conservative campus magazine, and two-term treasurer of the Undergraduate Council who twice sought the council's presidency, Appelbaum has made his mark at Harvard jousting with campus liberals...
...Kaufman slamming me was the culmination of my four years," he says. "He compared the Peninsula staff to Nazis and fascists. That's a damn lie; I'm Jewish myself. That kind of criticism just means I'm making sense. I'm sticking up for what middle America believes...
Although there are numerous varieties, Alexander said that lilacs come from two main species: Syringa Vulgaris, a variety which originates in Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Romania, and Syringa Oblata which has its roots in the Korean Peninsula...
...Saudi government that has increasingly staked its legitimacy on its role as the guardian of the Holy Places. "King Fahd now carries the title 'Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques,' an important element of legitimacy, given that the Saud family were basically conquerors of the tribes of the Arabian peninsula and have never permitted an election," notes TIME's Scott MacLeod. "King Fahd has spent billions on vast and opulent expansion projects in Mecca and sister city Medina, partly out of vanity and party to show the Muslim world and his subjects in Saudi Arabia that he is doing great...
...often at the South Pole, an area remote from any obvious sources of additional moisture. In the continent's Dry Valleys region, the lake ice seems to be thinning. It actually rained briefly at the American base in McMurdo Sound this year. The Wordie Ice Shelf on the Antarctic peninsula has all but collapsed, signaling a retreat of the northern limit of permanent ice on the continent. And in the 1970s a portion of the sea-ice apron as big as California disappeared for three years...