Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rubber sponges...
...wore a Jean-Paul Gaultier dress made all of rubber," she said...
...inability to inspire or lead the people. In the name of "the people's right to know" or "checks on government power," the dignity of a candidate is demolished by questions about his third cousin's sex life, sophomoric satires and photos of him in the bathtub with his rubber duckie...
That may come as a surprise to those who have read Feynman's two popular autobiographies, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think?, or to those who watched him dip a bit of rubber in ice water during the Challenger accident investigation, making it crack and proving that cold temperatures had led to the space shuttle's 1986 crash. Feynman's public image was that of a skirt-chasing, bongo-playing wise guy, a man who thought he was smarter than anyone else, and who therefore probably deserved to be taken down...
Harvard netminder Tripp Tracy meanwhile occupied himself by tossing aside the black rubber biscuits that Colgate sent from center ice during the first half of the contest...