Word: rage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...burning of fossil fuels like coal and gasoline; the gases trap radiation that has come from the sun and that would otherwise escape into space. The result is global warming: over time, sea levels will rise, droughts and floods could become more extreme, and tropical storms may rage more destructively...
...meantime--if it is not the young who are willing to rage against the dying of the light...who is? And what are we old and mid-aged fogies out there to make of what appears to be an entire generation which, to paraphrase old, passionate William Butler Yeats, has more substance in their apathies than in their love...
...from 1925 until her death in 1975 at age 69, may have been color-blind, but Baker never escaped the reality of race. Indeed, it was the exoticism of her black beauty and the apparent spontaneity of her jazz- inflected dancing that captivated French audiences. With negritude the cultural rage, Baker was nominated as queen of Paris' great Colonial Exposition of 1931 -- until critics pointed out the obvious, that she was neither French nor African. Baker was memorably reminded of that during a 1935 dinner party in New York City given by Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart. She insisted on speaking...
ENDS are all the rage these days. Although scientists have been proclaiming for decades that the "end of physics" is in sight, the idea has never really caught in with the general public. Until...
...face was crimson with rage...