Word: simmers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...religious activists have gone home, all the posters have finally come down and the campus debate over gay rights seems to have returned to its normal simmer. National is old news. But Coming Out of Homosexuality Day is part of a larger series of battles that has raged on for more than 20 years...
Hillel recently bought a special pot designed to simmer chulent overnight, allowing it to be prepared before Sabbath and eaten the next...
...Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority, with Israeli acquiescence, has amassed security forces numbering at least 30,000. Last week they turned their weapons on the Israelis, prompting, for the first time, a head-on clash between the two armies. By week's end, when hostilities had calmed to a simmer, 59 Palestinians and 14 Israelis had been killed and nearly a thousand others injured throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Not since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war had the territories seen such carnage...
...farmers. "He has a very bright future," Gramm said at a lunch at the 1992 G.O.P. convention in Houston. "I have no doubt in my mind, Rick someday is either going to be Governor of our state or a Senator from Texas." Four years later, the scenarios still simmer; Gramm or junior Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison could get a Cabinet post, rekindling Perry's Senate dreams...
...expect populism, once unleashed, to forever avoid its traditional (and, to many minds, logically more compelling) target. Second, Buchanan has turned up the heat. His blame game is more pointed and angry. But if you've been doing your best to keep popular resentments at a high simmer, your indignation is suspect when someone decides to go for a roiling boil...