Word: took
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sips of water he took...
...what so many young people do when they leave the nest: she assembled a surrogate family for herself. She chose her father figure, Bill Clinton, even before she got to town, it seems, and won him over in a panty-flash. But finding a stand-in mother took a while. For a time Betty Currie, the President's secretary, seemed to fill the role, but when Lewinsky was transferred from the White House to the Pentagon, she apparently found a new mama: Linda Tripp. Lewinsky's dysfunctional household was complete, with the result that, ever since, the country has been...
...embolden the Kosovo Liberation Army, then at the peak of its strength and demanding an independent state, which Washington opposed. Clinton was too distracted to knock bureaucratic heads or force the allies to carry out their threat. The indecision "proved to be a disaster," says a U.S. diplomat. "Milosevic took the measure of the West and decided he could take advantage...
...finished yet. Dorry's campaign took hold last year when fishermen along the East Coast joined to protest a 369-ft. factory trawler, the Atlantic Star. U.S.-Dutch owned, the Star was being refitted in Norway to catch herring and mackerel. The two species are food for cod, tuna, birds, whales and dolphins, and could be a vital link in rebuilding the Atlantic food chain...
Greenpeace was encouraged when Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, whose pollock stocks are hurt by overfishing, filed a bill to limit factory trawling in American waters. Dorry and her Greenpeace colleagues hurriedly stocked their big bus and took off around the U.S. to support Stevens' bill...