Word: rip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saturday: Dash Rip Rock...
Even as chain saws rip through the equatorial rain forests and overgrazing threatens to turn the African plains to dust, an unlikely coalition of university scientists and civil engineers, public officials and environmental activists has embarked on dozens, perhaps hundreds, of experimental projects aimed at repairing environmental damage. They call themselves restoration ecologists, and they are re-creating destroyed habitats from Britain to Costa Rica and from Israel to the American Midwest. With bulldozers and dredges, they are removing the dirt and garbage that have been dumped on wetlands. With hacksaws and herbicides, they are attacking exotic interlopers that have...
...most annoying new number. "Cause silence isn't golden when I'm holding it inside." Poor Axl. A talented vocalist and a whirling dervish of a stage performer, Rose is nonetheless one very disturbed human being, who sings, "I'm a cold heartbreaker/ Fit ta burn and I'll rip your heart in two." This is probably true. But even truer, and more appropriate, are the words once sung by his obvious intellectual forebear, the Scarecrow in The Wizard...
...breakneck speed. Institutions that had seemed both immutable and central to Soviet life are vanishing into thin air or being turned inside out at a dizzying pace. A citizen who returned last week from a fortnight out of the country might think he had awakened from a decades-long Rip van Winkle sleep, so totally had the country changed in his absence...
...almost 400 members of the Central Committee, once one of the country's most powerful institutions, suddenly faced the prospect of losing their jobs as well as the privileges -- from dachas to chauffeur-driven sedans -- that so infuriated the average Soviet worker. Gorbachev's decision, however, did more than rip the heart out of the once monolithic party. His move signaled that the Communist Party's influence over the country's affairs was finished once and for all, its structure shattered and its 15 million members across the country forced to reshape their political allegiances...