Word: ridden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...California race, Republican candidate Wilson, 56, has seized every opportunity to remind voters not only of his long opposition to offshore drilling but also of his long attachment to conservation-minded "growth management" as mayor of San Diego from 1971 to 1983. On the campaign trail he has ridden a trolley to show his support for fume-free mass transit and visited a motor vehicle factory to admire the prototype of a methanol-powered bus. At a country club in Santa Barbara -- as Republican a setting as any to be found in Southern California -- he assured a matronly audience...
...into the air by sneezing and coughing or through contact with mucus on hands or objects. Transmission is faster in places with poor ventilation, such as rooms with closed windows, crowded classrooms, nursing homes and public transportation systems. On planes, where the air is continuously recirculated, just one flu- ridden passenger can infect all the rest...
...Eakins, Eastman Johnson and William Harnett, and a bronze study of a black soldier's head done for the Shaw Memorial in Boston, his greatest public work of art, by Augustus Saint- Gaudens. And there is a great deal of poor to average American 19th century art -- clumsy, cliche ridden, provincial, earnest. But the show's point lies elsewhere: in the subject matter and how it is treated...
...stayed briefly with supporters at homes ranging from multibedroom houses to bug-ridden shacks, and supposedly spent part of one night on the 17th floor of the Holiday Inn. On Sunday, the fifth day of the invasion, U.S. troops reportedly burst into the luxurious home of the mother of Noriega's mistress, Vicky Amado, but missed the dictator possibly by only half an hour. The Wall Street Journal stated that the Americans had been told of Noriega's whereabouts by a telephone call from Amado's teenage daughter. Amado's mother denied that U.S. troops raided her house...