Word: slenderer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Winston Churchill scorned him as a half-naked fakir stirring up sedition. His generation knew him as a radical political agitator; ours shrugs off a holy man with romantic notions of a pure, pre-industrial life. There is no either-or. The saint and the politician inhabited the same slender frame, each nourishing the other. His struggle for a nation's rights was one and the same with his struggle for individual salvation...
...called orthodoxy. However, they have shed no direct light on Jesus. The Nag Hammadi manuscripts, discovered by Egyptian farmers in 1945, also proved of interest chiefly to students of the swarm of theologies that proliferated in early Christianity. The chance that they contain reliable historical information about Jesus is slender, though they hint tantalizingly that Jesus may have been more liberal in his views of women and sexuality than later church fathers allowed...
Tragic stories like these fill the nation's newspapers. But do they have any relevance to stepfamilies as a whole? Yes, say Martin Daly and Margo Wilson, two Canadian psychology professors at McMaster University in Ontario. In their slender new book, The Truth About Cinderella: A Darwinian View of Parental Love (Yale University Press), the duo argue that having a stepparent is the most powerful risk factor for severe child abuse. In fact, they say, an American child living with one genetic parent and one stepparent is 100 times as likely to suffer fatal abuse as a child living with...
...Laramie, arguments began in Aaron McKinney's murder trial this week. McKinney's lawyers chose the familiar "homosexual panic" defense, portraying Shepard as a sexual predator who licked McKinney's ear and touched his genitals. Enraged and frightened, his lawyers said, McKinney responded with brutal violence, beating the slender college student over and over with the butt of a gun. In at a summit in Lynchburg, Jerry Falwell vowed to help keep such violence from ever occurring again. For Matthew Shepard, the minister's promise comes too late. But that promise--contradictory, halting, uncertain, well-intentioned and human--may someday...
...veto by President Clinton is assured ? and despite the fact that the measure?s biggest problem right now is Republicans themselves. Speaker Denny Hastert is cracking the party whip as hard as he can ? and he?s not afraid to beg, either, telling members that the GOP?s slender majority (not to mention his own job) is riding on this vote. And he?s breaking the first rule of congressional politics: He doesn?t even know how it?s going to turn out. "This is becoming yet another opportunity for Republicans to embarrass themselves," says TIME White House correspondent...