Word: swung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stock prices swung . . . er . . . crazily. Down 83 points on Tuesday, as measured by the Dow Jones industrial average, after Clinton's Monday night TV preview. Marking time Wednesday. Thursday, sequential chaos: up 35 points early, then down around 40, then recovering to a loss of only around 10. Friday, up, down, sideways and up at the end, for a gain of almost 20 points on the day -- but a loss of roughly 70, or 2%, for the week. Fundamentally, stock traders were highly nervous. They were worried that the higher taxes Clinton proposed would, at least in the short...
...Clubine alleges that she felt her life was in danger and hit him over the head with a wine bottle, causing a fatal brain hemorrhage. "I didn't mean to kill him," she says. "He had hit me several times. Something inside me snapped; I grabbed the bottle and swung." The jury found Clubine guilty of second-degree manslaughter, and Judge Stevens sentenced her to 15 years to life. She says Clubine drugged her husband into lethargy before fatally hitting him. "It seemed to me ((the beatings)) were some time ago," Stevens told the Los Angeles Times. Furthermore, she added...
Millions of years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and our mammalian ancestors swung from the vines, no one worried about their hair...
Newsweek editors swung by the Lampoon earlierthis year to gauge the publication's elitistpotential, said Lampoon editor David P. Lorsch'92. Clad in black turtlenecks and smoking Frenchcigarettes, Poonsters did their best to fit thebill...
...confusion seems to surface during adolescence and early adulthood. Al, 38, of Chicago, recalls that during his troubled college years "there was almost no place I could go where bisexuality was part of the norm." Having "bought into the myth that bisexuality was a political cop-out," he swung between describing himself as straight and gay. But his distress was so great that "I went though a period of a year or two where I called myself 'unlabeled...