Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There was safety glass in the window, and so it broke into little chunks, not sharp pieces," Botosh said...
After the salve, the lights were turned on and the candles, for the most part, extinguished. The men strummed their guitars to a faster pace, and one by one, couples took the floor to dance the Sevillana, a traditional dance punctuated by sharp stomps and flowery hand motions that tells a love story in four parts, while the crowd sang and clapped in time...
...other day in the dining hall I saw an animal--an overgrown, grotesque beast covered with tangled dark hair, sharp teeth dripping with saliva and long brittle nails evocative of Freddie Kreuger. As I watched him prowl around the dining hall, a hollow hungry look on his face (he must have forgotten his ID card), I wondered why no one else noticed him. Deciding to ignore his foreboding presence, I swiped my card, filled my plate full of chicken fingers and sat down, determined to read my newspaper in peace...
What stands out in the data is an unusually sharp rise in sea-surface temperatures in 1877, the very year that a strong El Nino coincided with the greatest failure of the monsoon in recent times. "The way I think of it," says Fairbanks, "is as an orchestra. Sometimes the monsoon and El Nino play together, and sometimes they play apart. But where's the conductor...
...peach and apricot orchards give a bell-like vigor to the air. Nagano is actually on almost the same latitude as Rome and San Francisco--the southernmost city ever to be host of a Winter Games--but its nearby mountains are famous for their clear, rushing streams and sharp blue skies. "This is the most beautiful place in Japan," says an American professor at a local university. "I'll be happy if I never see Tokyo in my life again...