Word: slog
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Admittedly, the prospect of another semester of monumental idiocy is appealing. But not appealing enough to slog through the entire tedious business of a campus convulsion. With the time saved, we could rent a movie; possibly, but not definitely, Mississippi Burning...
Bush's high court nominee withholds his abortion views, but confirmation seems assured. -- White House and congressional leaders slog their way toward a budget deal. -- Hard times on the Great Plains. -- A reformer wins in D.C., and Dinkins calls the cops...
Like more than half the traffic lights in Bucharest, this one on the busy corner of Boulevard Nicolae Balcescu is dead. In the freezing fog, sputtering Rumanian-made Dacia sedans are lurching every which way, horns honking. On the sidewalk, pedestrians slog through ankle-deep mud and slush past an armored personnel carrier, guarded by shivering young soldiers fingering the triggers of their Kalishnikov rifles. At a kiosk nearby, 50 customers jostle for the meager pile of Romania Libera newspapers. Two doors away, a line of more than 100 shoppers shuffles toward a butcher's counter offering only hamburger...