Word: ridden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cartoons that Jules Feiffer syndicates to more than 100 newspapers around the globe are world crises in miniature -- angst-ridden responses by ordinary people to headline horrors and social absurdities. His plays have the same etched wit, the same arresting blend of compassion and chilly analysis and, alas for dramaturgy, the same tendency toward monologue: one of his central if unspoken themes is that people almost never speak to each other as insightfully as they speak to themselves...
...many years ago by an old clergyman, and I never forgot it. And I learned from that moment on that I would be tempted in those areas. So I never rode in a car with a woman alone. I never have eaten a meal with my secretary alone or ridden in a car with her alone. If we sit in here and I dictate something to her, the door is open. And just little things like that, that people would think are so silly, but it was ingrained in me in those early years...
...shouldn't take much time in the bowels of the subway system to realize that for every disease-ridden, drugcrazed bum who manages to stagger through a turnstile without depositing a token, there are three 30-year-old downtown businesspeople who enjoy showing off the hurdling skills they developed while on the track team at some elite college like, say, Harvard. I found further proof of the lack of correlation between socioeconomic condition and depravity in what I saw at the Lowell House Formal last Saturday night at the Harvard Club of Boston...
...issue is whether the malaise-ridden student government achieved a quorum or not at its last meeting of the year on Sunday--the fourth straight session during which it suffered from attendance problems...
...rising public resentment, Congress was unwilling to change it until Charles Keating came along. He is the former savings and loan chairman who doled out $1.4 million to the so-called Keating Five -- four Democrats and a Republican who ran interference for him with federal regulators investigating his fraud- ridden thrift. When asked if his money had bought the Senators' services, Keating replied, "I certainly hope so." Says Common Cause President Fred Wertheimer: "Keating has confirmed the public's worst fears...