Word: ridden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taking the money they were going to pay the Russians to conduct experiments aboard Mir. For the moment, things have settled down in orbit. With Mir's solar panels once more pointed at the sun and its batteries recharging steadily, the crew has been given a day off. Anxiety-ridden Mir commander Vasily Tsibliyev reportedly took a few sedatives so that he could get some much-needed sleep...
...female dragons control the planet, and are ridden by intimidating "Weyrwomen...
...reason should The Tasty, that cramped, grease-ridden snack shop, be allowed to remain in fair Harvard Square. In fact, the entire corner presents an architectural eyesore. Age alone does not justify continued existence; no one makes scenic monuments to bawdy Babylonian bordellos. True, Harvard Square needs a 24-hour restaurant, but the Tasty is not the answer...
...their newness and possibility, they had not felt before. It was nostalgia, a sense of irretrievable loss. Some writers and painters, at least, began to sense a fault line in American history--the way in which America's eager anticipation of the future might turn into a more doubt-ridden view of progress, after the fratricidal horrors of the Civil War. To Henry Adams, writing in the early 1900s, the assassination seemed to have thrown Americans into a state of mind without connection to the past; it was a secular analogy to the death...
...students' interest in computer science as opposed to English literature will have no effect on them and will not, in turn, be affected by their particular personalities. And just as clearly, this is not a phenomenon confined to these hallowed Harvardian halls--the warring intellectual stereotypes of the acne-ridden, bespectacled, socially inept math-science geek and the gaunt, black-clad, pseudo-European postmodern drama student are universal in American society, and are probably older than any of us (except, perhaps, for the postmodern part). "Revenge of the Nerds" and "Sprockets" are but the two most obvious examples of these...