Word: ridden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McNally elaborately portrays a high school community in Phoenix, Arizona. Puberty, break-ups, confused sexuality, divorces, insanity and a suicide or two confront the motley cast of teachers, parents, students and lovers. Walker Miller, an angst-ridden teen, shoots himself in the mouth, triggering a season of self-analysis for everyone involved. The novel charts their attempts to recognize and deal with their grief...
...cross-century, cross-cultural study of the vital link between economic and military power. So what if Kennedy -- never a popularizer -- force-fed readers far more about the Habsburg Empire than most of them ever wanted to know? What mattered was that his thesis (a debt-ridden U.S. was fast running the risk of "imperial overstretch") perfectly captured the edgy mood of the late Reagan years, as opinion leaders began to brood that it was twilight in America...
Middle-class, full-time motherhood is too often imbued with martyrdom and angst-ridden soul searching, usually a feverish attempt to justify the retreat to domesticity. This retreat may be facilitated by the fact that women do face particular problems in the corporate world...
...lobby strongly to defeat: people will ordinarily be able to buy no more than one handgun a month. That should be enough for most amateur gun lovers, but not for the black-market professionals who have been buying weapons by the dozens and smuggling them into such crime-ridden cities as Washington, Baltimore, New York and Boston. As many as a quarter of New York City's handguns can be traced back to Virginia...
...injury-ridden Crimson dropped matches to perennial power Cornell (42-3), Columbia (33-10) and Boston University (28-10), but hung tough to defeat Boston College...