Word: reddish
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that illness is no excuse for legalizing marijuana--not even to ease the suffering of patients with cancer, AIDS or other life-threatening diseases. The folks on Santa Monica Boulevard, however respectable, are committing a federal crime as they collect baggies of Maude's Mighty Moss ("large and luscious reddish green buds, easy to break and roll," $18 a gram) and Adobe ("compressed green bud, fresh and tasty, with seeds and stems," $4 a gram...
...Silk Road," of what's been lost: "The first sight of the valley of the Great Buddha must have made weary travelers gasp - immense cliffs of a soft pastel color, and behind them indigo peaks dusted with snow, rising to a height of 20,000 feet. They saw the reddish cliffs in the cold, clear air; as they came closer, they could make out two gigantic statues of the Buddha standing in niches carved in the mountains. Closer still, they saw that the two colossal figures were colored and glistening with ornaments; the smaller wore blue, the larger...
...capital remains very much a work in progress. Many governmental functions and satellite offices - like the U.S. embassy, for example - remain a 10-hour car ride away in Lagos. The stark poured concrete design of most of Abuja's buildings contrasts sharply with the lush green palm fronds, reddish earth and mud, and huge distinctive outcroppings of coarse black volcanic rock that constitute the capital's older and more natural skyline...
...hacking into its computers 26. Mexicali Mrs. 29. C.W. Post is part of it 30. Gettysburg Address ender 31. Shakespeare prince 32. Team that baseball owners would like to disband 34. Kind of process 35. Opportunity for a hit 37. Magnum and others 38. Deep Blue's maker 39. Reddish-brown gemstone 40. He's signed on with the ad agency that helped elect Ventura 42. Prefix meaning personal 44. Bush got heckled by death-penalty opponents at its convention 48. Dow Jones fig. 50. City that's offering White Bikes 53. Dickensian epithet 54. The National Geographic Society will...
...fact, this mostly blue-eyed, blond or reddish-haired people who originated in what is now Scandinavia were primarily farmers and herdsmen. They grew grains and vegetables during the short summer but depended mostly on livestock--cattle, goats, sheep and pigs. They weren't Christian until the late 10th century, yet they were not irreligious. Like the ancient Greeks and Romans, they worshiped a pantheon of deities, three of whom--Odin, Thor and Freya--we recall every week, as Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were named after them. (Other Norse words that endure in modern English: berserk and starboard...