Word: tartaric
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...born hungry. His parents were Tartar peasants from Ufa, in Bashkir near the Ural Mountains. "Our Tartar blood runs faster," he wrote later, "always ready to boil." Especially during World War II his parents and three sisters and he faced extreme privation, living in one room with two other families. From age six, when he saw his first dance performance, he was obsessed by movement. His father hoped his bright son would become a doctor or an engineer...
...fears of Russia's neighbors across the spectrum of Eurasia have deep historical roots. "Scratch a Russian, and you will wound a Tartar," wrote the dry-eyed French 19th century observer of Russia, Joseph de Maistre. The ) Mongol invasion (1237-1480) and its aftermath of cruel autocracy had isolated Russians totally from Western developments, particularly the Renaissance and the Reformation. That long isolation embraced every aspect of Russian life. Russia's first modern technology, in the 17th century, was all imported from Holland and Germany. Russia didn't have even a single university until...
...College does not and should not decide whether student groups can fly unsafe airlines or travel to high-crime areas at night or use non-tartar-control toothpaste. And it should not try to control student travel--even during times...
...idiot" on the council's list was Homer, father of the Simpson family and an employee of the fictitious Springfield nuclear plant. Homer seems to care less about safety than about naps, doughnuts and having enough tartar sauce for his fish sticks...