Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Besides, it's all in a kind of museum, if you half-close your eyes. The Gagosian Gallery, perhaps because its ascent from selling posters on the West Coast to flogging $10 million De Koonings has been so short and steep, goes to great lengths to surround its wares with the aura of a museum rather than that of a shop. It has even hired a guard to stand at the entrance to the room in which Salle's six new paintings are displayed, presumably in case some collector from the bottom of the waiting list is seized...
...wretched as they are, Omar's family is among the blessed ones. They live in one of the thousands of tents pitched on the steep slopes of the Sirwan River valley, a few miles inside the Iranian border. The Iranian army provides shelter, bread every day, and a crude dispensary gives basic medical help, especially against rampant dysentery caused by the lack of clean drinking water. But Omar's family must make do with only one blanket to stave off the frigid nights. The terrible cold and disease claim young lives every day, a tragedy underscored by the cemetery...
...stretch of the road has a steep mountain wall on one side and a near vertical drop on the other, in places falling away for several hundred feet. Old men overtaken by exhaustion sprawl dangerously close to the brink. Other refugees step over them, too tired to lend a hand. Distressed mothers, wondering when dehydration and shock will claim their children, hold their diarrhea-plagued babies over the road's edge and let them relieve themselves...
...perceptively saw the murder of Mary Frug as a "symptom of the disintegration of society" (Crimson, April 6). We are called to spend a little more time fighting for humane rules and egalitarian institutions, and perhaps a little less time securing our own prestigious places in the nation's steep hierarchy of privilege and reward...
...word quick can mean vastly different things, however, as Representative Barbara Boxer of suburban San Francisco indicated in January during the course of the House floor debate against the war. Although she argued that any amount of combat would impose too steep a price, she conceded to colleagues, "We will win this war -- quickly! Maybe two weeks, maybe two months -- that's quick. Maybe at most six months -- that's quick, I guess." There is, alas, a huge difference between two weeks and six months in money spent, suffering inflicted and lives lost...