Word: ridden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston's 57,000 public-school students, 80% of them members of minorities. Black leaders and the School Committee protested the council's action, which must be approved by the Massachusetts legislature and signed by the Governor. But Mayor Raymond Flynn, who is pushing hard to overhaul the debt-ridden system, argues, "There's just no time anymore to sit around and think. We've got kids walking away from classrooms, who shoot and kill each other in the streets...
These patterns lend an empty, dissatisfied feel to the book. We are in the middle of a decayed, small world in which a housewife dances alone in an empty living room, and an aging, cancer-ridden football coach stands on a bench in the rain and pleads for support to a vacant, deaf street...
...raised on Cape Cod -- "beautiful, absolutely delicious." Al Falchi, who owns the Waterfront Restaurant in San Francisco, buys farmed fish because "you never know how long a wild fish has been sitting on the boat." Perhaps the last word should go to Paul Constantin of New Orleans, who has ridden the catfish wave at his nouvelle Creole restaurant, Constantin's. "Tourists come here to give different foods a shot," he observes. "Look, if they'll try raw oysters, they'll try anything...
Vietnam and Watergate left us guilt ridden, acting almost as if we deserved punishment, and look what we got: 10 years of inflation and stagflation, three recessions and a stock market lower in 1982 than in 1972. Today we feel guilty about our '80s binge. We've been bad; send us to our room...
Students involved in the program bring champagne, turkey and conversation to the homes of house-ridden people. "We've become a very popular thing for people to do who don't have anywhere to go during Thanksgiving," Shah said. "We've had very positive response...