Word: sun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people, nearly half of Hiroshima's population, perished immediately. Tens of thousands more died later of injuries sustained in the searing blast. But the real damage, as TIME wrote in 1945, was that this weapon "put into the hands of common man the fire and force of the sun itself...
...excruciating times for the newspaper industry. Newsprint prices have shot up more than 50% in the past year, advertising in much of the country is soft after years of recession, and circulation at many papers is flat or declining. In recent months the Houston Post and the Baltimore Evening Sun have joined the casualties. And a bitter strike against the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News has opened the possibility that only one of those two papers will survive...
...about women who have been wronged and yet foolishly go back to their men. On the ballad Love's a Funny Thing, the lyrics sound like a transcript from a Ricki Lake segment: "Every time I fall I make myself believe that you are changing and someday the sun will shine...
...days after the Serbs overran the Srebrenica enclave, all but a few of its 42,000 Muslims had been expelled. Thousands of them were in Tuzla or just outside, crowded into a makeshift tent city in appalling conditions at a U.N.-controlled airfield. The daytime sun was scorching, the smell overpowering. Wounded men on homemade wooden crutches hobbled amid hordes of kerchiefed old women in knitted vests as children shouted and played. Other thousands camped along the roadsides. Workers for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees put up temporary shelters and passed out food, but they were unable to keep...
...break out of the pack, he must also beat Dole in Florida, a winner-take-all contest for 98 delegates who represent 5% of the total heading to the national convention. Says Mark Merritt of the Alexander campaign: "Before this thing is over, we'll be airlifting sun block to Lamar in Miami...