Word: reared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wife told me I shouldn't make a big thing about not having been asked to deliver the poem at Bill Clinton's Inauguration next week. She said I was beginning to remind her of Newt Gingrich talking about having to get off Air Force One through the rear door. "Nobody likes a whiner," she said...
...plea for help with its Olympic-bombing investigation on TV last week, he had a shock of recognition: the bomb had exploded directly behind a fan-shaped Greek statue he had been photographing only hours before the deadly blast. Miltiades went back to his photos and found a rear shot of a white man in khaki shorts wearing a knapsack that looked like the one the FBI said had contained the bomb. He called the FBI's hotline, and within minutes an agent was at his door to whisk the picture away for expert analysis...
...truly faithful sweep the ground with a small broom to avoid accidentally stepping on insects or other hapless creatures. Even the famously technophobic Amish are represented online by a Website run by Ohio State University. It offers, among other things, a guide for installing a rear warning light on a horse-drawn carriage...
...lang. Unlike the anonymous models of the first part of the exhibition, whose faces are often turned away or obscured, the faces of the celebrities are essential to their portraits. However, sometimes the subject is reduced to a characteristic single attribute (Sandra Bernhard's mouth, Cher's rear view) that is key to their media image. In other pictures, Ritts' gaze shifts to a different aspect of the person. A portrait of Mick Jagger shows only his bony chest covered by a pair of satin overalls with "Mick" spelled out in rhinestones. Cindy Crawford is disguised as Marilyn Monroe...
...25th reunion, perhaps sooner, we'll look back and laugh. We'll wonder why we worried so much about the future, which in retrospect will seem to have been quite clear. We will reach a point when those frantic high school days will have truly passed from existence, to rear their ugly head no more. We will have proven ourselves and we will be satisfied. After all, we went to Harvard...