Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...child by a black laborer (Dennis Haysbert) who walks out on her. She moves in with a pair of religious-fanatic spinsters who try to take away her baby. Later, bitter and near a breakdown, she is thrown into a mental institution full of raving loonies out of The Snake...
...staged a grueling series of hearings on public education in all 75 Arkansas counties. She spent long evenings drinking stale coffee in overheated cafeterias while participants trooped to the microphone to offer their views and occasional insults (she was once called "lower than a snake's belly"). Known to click a ball-point pen if someone was belaboring the obvious, she sometimes resorted to setting a timer at five minutes to keep the meetings moving. As the deadline approached, Mrs. Clinton drove the meetings from 6 p.m. Friday until late Sunday afternoon. When she presented the findings to a special...
...Shoshoni-Bannock people of the Fort Hall reservation in Idaho secured their right to use 581,000 acre-feet of water flowing through the Snake River under an 1868 treaty. The tribe will use the water for farming and sell any excess...
...years the government had to prove that it had a "compelling interest" in order to limit religious liberty. That was the basis for outlawing Mormon polygyny and Pentecostal snake-handling. But in a significant 1990 decision holding that Native Americans have no constitutional right to ritual use of peyote, the Supreme Court gave government more leeway to restrict religious practices. A proposed bill to restore the "compelling interest" test has not reached the floor of Congress, but another attempt will be made next year...
Further, family values, a flashy issue of opportunity, has about it a certain eloquent irrelevance -- something like the old waving of the bloody shirt, or the snake-oil vending that has always gone on in American politics. North Carolina Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, a baroque declaimer of the Southern school of rural demagogy in the '30s and '40s, was a genius of flavorsome insinuation. "Do y'all know what ((my opponent's)) favorite dish is?" he would ask slowly of his "God-fearin', 'tater-raisin', baby-havin' " constituents. Then in a burst of disgusted indignation: "Caviar!" The word came...