Word: pioneeringly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pioneer in the application of semi-classical methods and has been exploring the fundamental relationships between semi classical and quantum mechanics," she said...
...peanut butter rather than this screed. But as rancid gossip repackaged for national distribution, Queer in America is going to be hard to beat. Signorile learned his trade feeding items to New York City gossip columnists. He was an innuendo specialist who now touts himself as the pioneer of "outing," the distasteful practice of publicizing the private lives of homosexuals who do not feel the need to advertise what goes on in their bedrooms. By outing the famous, Signorile believes he is liberating all homosexuals from shame and guilt. He is especially eager to smoke out gays and lesbians whose...
America has long wrestled with the tension between its Puritan and pioneer heritages, and its attitude toward sex has often seemed muddled. Victorian parents, fearful of their children's sexuality, would try to delay the onset of puberty by underfeeding their children. By 1910 exploding rates of syphilis drove the crusade for sex education in much the way AIDS does today. In 1940 the U.S. Public Health Service argued the urgent need for schools to get involved, and within a few years the first standardized programs rolled into classrooms. But by the 1960s came the backlash from the John Birch...
...Rosenkrantz says she sees her own legacy as an intellectual one. An academic pioneer, she was one of the first to study the history of public health and medicine at Harvard, colleagues say, and she has always been a quick, incredibly intelligent and brilliant scholarly presence...
...railway brakeman. He also made a friend, nicknamed College, whose family in Maine welcomed Jonathan after their son's death. Jonathan traveled the country in a vain search for his father -- someone to give him an anchor and a bloodline. In time he became a circuit rider and a pioneer farmer. He married and sired children. He neither forgot nor forgave the past. The novel's climax is a fatal, vengeful encounter with his boyhood nemesis, Alvah Stoke's son George, who had become a U.S. Senator...