Word: soils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conventions of Western culture, starting with the idea of beauty itself. Yet his attachment to rural images from earlier French art, particularly the earthy fields of Millet, is pervasive and obvious; some of his "Texturologies" might as well be exaggeratedly close-up paintings of the life of the soil done by a microbiologist under the spell of the Barbizon school...
...river's edge, and most of the time it has. But many environmentalists believe that, over the years, the corps's attempts to control the Mississippi have backfired. Left to its own devices, a flooding river spreads horizontally, filling its natural floodplain and enriching it with fertile, alluvial soil. Along the Mississippi, however, this pattern of natural flow has been increasingly blocked by a patchwork of levees...
...extratropical cyclone -- a blizzard with hurricane- strength winds that blanketed parts of North Carolina with 50 in. of snow. In early winter, some Southwest cities got a year's supply of rain in six weeks. A record number of tornadoes (1,381 in all) touched down on U.S. soil last year, as well as the nation's costliest weather disaster, Hurricane Andrew, which destroyed $20 billion worth of property in Florida alone...
...detention had nothing to do with terrorism. Attorney General Janet Reno determined that there was insufficient evidence linking Abdel Rahman to the bomb plots, and she clung to that stand despite reports that the FBI had taped the sheik saying "American blood must be spilled on its own soil." (That, said one of the sheik's allies, was just "Arabic hyperbole -- good Arabic, bad English...
...self-effacing to write her memoirs, but it was quite a story. She was a child of the frontier, born in scruffy Ely, Nevada; a daughter of the Depression, helping coax a living out of four acres of Southern California soil; a wife of the '50s, on the ladder to success. Christened Thelma Catherine Ryan, she was dubbed Pat by her Irish-American father, a miner, to mark her arrival on the eve of St. Patrick's Day. Eventually she made the nickname legal, but somehow she was always more a Thelma than a Patricia, the kind of girl that...