Word: sand
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Algae To human eyes, the world on the eve of the Cambrian explosion would have seemed an exceedingly hostile place. Tectonic forces unleashed huge earthquakes that broke continental land masses apart, then slammed them back together. Mountains the size of the Himalayas shot skyward, hurling avalanches of rock, sand and mud down their flanks. The climate was in turmoil. Great ice ages came and went as the chemistry of the atmosphere and oceans endured some of the most spectacular shifts in the planet's history. And in one way or another, says Knoll, these dramatic upheavals helped midwife complex animal...
Then, on the subsequent first down, Harvard's offensive line opened up a gaping hole, enabling Hu to drive ahead for a 17-yard gain to the Yale 26. Two Ferrara incompletions sand-wiched around a Hu four-yard gain set up a Ryan Korinke 40-yard field goal--only his second of the season. The seven-play drive, 42-yard drive put the Crimson back on top, 10-9, with 12:07 to play in the third quarter...
...down with the Clintons--world leaders from Yasser Arafat to Jiang Zemin, celebrity icons (Astaire, Garland, Carson) and cons (Mr. T, Suzanne Somers) and, by her own count, seven alleged murderers. This woman, who was caricatured in her Sarah Lawrence yearbook as an ostrich with its head in the sand, has stuck her nose into the conflict in the Middle East, the Iran-contra scandal and the marriage of Mike Tyson and Robin Givens. She is a living, talking, occasionally fawning chronicle of culture and politics in the latter half of the 20th century. She is like a redwood that...
...catalog, published last month, contains no S&M poodle collars, urine-filled snow globes or bare-bottomed Barbie dolls. Indeed, the items are often striking but decidedly noncontroversial. There is a plate decorated with one of Mapplethorpe's virginal-looking calla-lily photos (price: $125) and a sand-filled "remembrance box" designed by Finley as a "personal altar" to dead loved ones ($54). One can also buy a cardboard chair that supports a 250-lb. person ($35), as well as assorted candles, lamps, place mats, letter openers and dog toys...
...SIMPSON TRIAL HAS SHAKEN AMERIcans' confidence in the ability of the U.S. judicial system to deliver justice. As time passes, the case may recede into being only another speck of sand on the sand hill, but its effect on the shape of the hill will last forever. There is far more at stake here than the case. Yes, one side lost and another won, but did either one rise to the occasion? MAIR ZAMIR, London, Ontario...