Word: silver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...paramedics entered her tiny bedroom at 1:30 a.m. Observed St. Andrew: "She's 96 years old, maybe senile, hurts all over. But basically she's healthy." Carried out by burly firemen, Aguayo seemed like a wounded bird with her thin, angular features, frightened eyes and short silver hair. "My hands! My hands!" she cried. She began to vomit as the ambulance sped toward Santa Marta Hospital, the last "open" emergency room of the night. But her pain and terror were apparently caused by hysteria. The woman was sent home within hours...
...shop it around for the highest price. The bidding started with an offer of $850,000 from 20th Century Fox and escalated until Carolco Pictures reached a top bid of $2.25 million. But the screenwriter went with the lower bid by Geffen because he agreed to hire producer Joel Silver, who handled Lethal Weapon...
...scholarship to La Salle Military Academy, a boarding school on eastern Long Island. There Sununu rose to lieutenant colonel and commanded the other cadets. On graduation day, he won so many awards that the headmaster, rather than call him from his seat again and again, simply handed him a silver bowl and had him stand onstage to collect his loot. Though Sununu insists that he displayed no interest in politics until 1969, his fellow seniors in 1957 voted him Class Politician, as well as Outstanding Senior Student, Outstanding Orator, Most Energetic and Most Likely to Succeed...
Authoritarian regimes in Africa begin to give way to multiparty systems. -- Albania eases its Stalinist grip. -- A Soviet Communist Party official reflects on nationalism's silver lining...
...seen from Moscow, every silver lining has a cloud. There was something distinctly sour, even ominous, about last week's May Day demonstrations in Red Square. Some banners demanded faster and bolder progress toward a free market (A NEW SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ORDER NOW!), while others warned that resistance is already building to the hardships reform will entail, especially inflation and unemployment (FOOD IS NOT A LUXURY, PROTECT OUR JOBS!). Mikhail Gorbachev, who must reconcile that contradiction in the months ahead, left the reviewing stand atop Lenin's tomb, as jeers rose from the crowd below...