Word: tip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time, involves the infamous blue dress, which Lewinsky gave Starr's office on July 29, saying it might be soiled with evidence. The dress presented prosecutors with a choice: the office could keep secret the results of its DNA analysis until after the President's testimony, or it could tip off the President before he swore his oath. Clinton knew Starr had the dress, of course, and could have surmised what the test results would show. But Starr wasn't legally bound to inform him. And if Clinton's grand jury testimony stuck to the story that...
...next nine months, East Africa went off the intelligence radar screen. No more CIA reports of terror threats were delivered to the Nairobi embassy. In hindsight, it was probably a tip-off that something bad might happen. Terror cells go quiet before they attack. The CIA thought it had busted up the bin Laden cell, but during the silent period, "the B-team came in," says a U.S. intelligence official. Mohamed Rashed Daoud al-'Owhali and Mohamed Sadeek Odeh, trained in explosives at a bin Laden camp, eventually joined Fazul in Nairobi to organize the strike...
When Harvard's second-round game against Arkansas began the following Monday night, the Crimson was minus its starting center. Minutes after the opening tip, Janowski went into surgery, where doctors removed both the affected ovary and the Fallopian tube. Since her other ovary and corresponding Fallopian tube had been removed in the previous surgery, the operation left Janowski without the ability to reproduce...
...never be satisfied when you lose--youcan always do something better," Miller said. "Thekey was defensive rebounding. Even when we did geta good box out, they would go right around us andwe would tip the ball, we wouldn't grab...
What killed the dinosaurs? Scientists have been debating that one for a long time. They know that 65 million years ago, a large object, five or six miles across, blasted a 120-mile-wide crater at the tip of what today is Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. They also know that the impact, or more accurately, the worldwide, sunlight-blocking shroud of dust it kicked up, wiped out some 70% of the earth's plant and animal species--including the dinosaurs. But what, precisely, was the object that sealed their fate...