Word: tiding
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...know, you guys bet against me on my thesis, too, but I somehow came through," he says, making an impossible attempt to turn the tide of opprobrium...
Junior pitcher Jana Meader walked two batters and then gave up a three-run homer in the fourth that turned the tide of the game...
...Colosio, who then headed the government's social development secretariat last November, and most experts considered his election close to a sure thing. Now, only five months before the balloting, the P.R.I. has to find another candidate quickly, not only to resume campaigning but also to tamp down the tide of anxiety and insecurity. Uncharacteristically cooperative, the eight candidates suspended their campaigns...
...combatants may have taken the first serious steps in a Bosnian peace process last week. Diplomats began talking hopefully about finding an end to the 23-month war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The complementary pressures of Washington and Moscow appeared to be nudging their respective clients toward accommodation. A tide seemed to be turning as zeal for warfare ebbed and attention flowed toward crafting a negotiated settlement...
...from the bedside of a child dying from brain cancer. "Might brighten his life," he says. "Little guy lying there. Just broke your heart." Next he worries about a Kentucky kid who wants Bush to come for his Eagle Scout ceremony. Mail bearing these small hopes is at flood tide. He wants to tell the boy he can't be there but to keep going, keep trying. These are little things compared with the power equations at the White House, but to him they are "points of light" that answer his call for volunteerism from those old days...