Word: tinder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seemed over-whelming that the world I will graduate into will be one characterized by ever-increasing income inequality and a drop in standards of living. And yet, while studying just a few days ago, a ray of hope shone forth to me from an unlikely source: the otherwise tinder-dry pages of my Ec 10 textbook...
...important and fascinating in its own way. In category No. 2, the Simpson trial became a vivid shadow play of race in America. The defense's evocations of race in the trial may have been only an inflaming diversion. But on the subject of race, America is tinder dry this season...
...blaze, which destroyed 40 homes within hours of rising from the embers of an illegal campfire on Tuesday, scorched 11,100 tinder-dry acres within two days, most within the Point Reyes National Seashore...
California's troubles are all entangled: lots of rain means lusher growth, which, if a dry season follows, means more tinder to burn. If the fires torch the hillsides, there's nothing left to hold the mountains together, so when the rains return, the mud slides are worse. And when earthquakes come, the spongy ground can turn to pudding, and a house quivering on top sinks to the bottom of the bowl...
...northern Iraq and beyond are growing dangerously unstable. Meanwhile, neighboring Turkey, at war with rebellious Kurds in its provinces, was in turmoil last week from rioting by extremist Islamic and nationalist groups. "The area is extremely volatile--all of it," says a worried senior Clinton Administration official. Still more tinder piled up last week after Saddam seized two American civilians who seemed to have accidentally wandered across the border from Kuwait...