Word: smolderingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When it was all over, the defense counsel spoke. Sad-eyed, indignation banked to a mere smolder, Robert Shapiro argued that all the accusations laid against his client were the worst kind of circumstantial evidence -- evidence that could be read as innocence as well as guilt, and the court should have "little difficulty in deciding that this certainly is not a case of any premeditated murder by anyone." In fact, he declared, there was insufficient proof that O.J. Simpson was guilty of anything...
...game two that fire continued to smolder as Harvard again collapsed Cornell 7-2. Melissa Krueder drove in two runs with a double in the third; Christina Vogt followed in the fifth with a two-run triple...
...Mather? Mather doesn't burn. Even the rugs are smolder proof," said one Mather resident who sleeps through the ear- splitting sirens...
...injured might succumb, and cleanup crews might find more bodies in burned-out buildings. But the death toll, currently 53, already certifies the Los Angeles riots as the bloodiest in the U.S. in at least 75 years. And the embers from more than 5,500 fires still smolder, metaphorically -- as George Bush found out touring the riot areas last week. His guardians were so concerned for his security that they would not tell TV crews what route he would take, lest live coverage draw hostile demonstrators. But some showed up anyway, chanting "Go Home" or "No Justice." In response, Bush...
...metaphor for the U.S.'s blundering good intentions at playing global policeman. Salonga used to have to carry alone the idea that this was a doomed love worthy of Romeo and Juliet, not just a one-night stand that got out of ^ hand. Now the bedroom scenes smolder -- then ignite so brightly that Kim's faithful years-long wait for reunion and Chris' tormented dreams do not seem like self-delusory claptrap...