Word: rustication
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...northern border is the famous Mason-Dixon line, traditionally the demarcation between North and South. During the mid-19th century, Maryland was a major immigration center, and its ethnic diversity still sets it apart from many southern regions. The state also boasts demographic variety, from urban Baltimore to the rustic, Southern-styled Eastern Shore and the hills of the western panhandle. The eight House seats are divided equally between the parties, and while its political differences are great, when taken as a whole, Maryland is moderate with a slight Democratic edge, like the nation itself...
...such as gluttony, greed, even lust, were often blunted by scarcity. Only amid the material abundance that came with agriculture and grew thereafter could self-indulgence regularly reach grotesque levels. (Sodom and Gomorrah lay in the fertile plains. Their residents sinned amid plenty while Abraham herded his flock in rustic innocence on dryer terrain.) Similarly, anger acquired a new layer of evil with the invention of knives and spears, to say nothing of guns...
...took a brief afternoon stroll over to the rustic booth that has been in the Dunster courtyard for the past week. The booth is called a sukkah, the traditional temporary Jewish "home" constructed for the seven-day holiday of Sukkot each fall...
Members of the neighborhood said the proposed development threatens the rustic character of their "village," which forms the northern boundary of Radcliffe Quad...
Lastly, residents are lamenting the loss of open space: In a community that prizes its rustic feel, the destruction of even an ordinary garden would be mourned...