Word: ridden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lachenmeyer found that nearly everyone in the shops and restaurants on Church Street in Burlington remembered the proud bearded man in greasy, lice-ridden clothes who sat erect on park benches and somehow survived the coldest winter in local history. Police called him "Chuck" and said he arrived in 1992. He was comfortably dressed at first. But his disability checks stopped coming because of bureaucratic fumbling, and he became tattered and filthy...
Like most kids fortunate enough to grow up outside of the light-polluted and smog-ridden metropolis, I was fascinated by the starry night sky above me. Books about astronauts and rocket ships competed with Muppets and dinosaurs for space on my fledgling bookshelf. Back then a trip to the Hayden Planetarium in New York City was a special treat, and a morning of cartoons would not be complete without the extraterrestrial antics of the Jetsons. I knew the position of each planet relative to the sun in addition to the names of all the early astronauts. The capstone...
Within a week, Copeland had sued Rice for defamation and libel, Rice had reportedly tossed gold-colored rubber rats out of her midnight-black limo during the Mardi Gras Eve parade, and Copeland had ridden on a float with a stake holstered to his waist and a ring of garlic around his neck...
...most recent victory of Jean-Marie Le Pen as an aberration, TIME's Bruce Crumley calls the development worrying: "This concentration of power in the south provides the party with the base to launch a major offensive in the run up to next year's national elections." Scandal-ridden Socialists and conservatives risk being railroaded by the extremists, says Crumley: "NF candidates may be regarded by disgruntled voters as the only alternative to tainted mainstream politicians...
...this early rush was just an illusion, as the game quickly devolved into a slow-paced, penalty-ridden affair with neither team gaining much momentum...