Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel's Coordinating Council voted (by an overwhelming majority) to condemn AALARM's hateful gay-bashing posters last week, it unleashed a torrent of ridiculously vitriolic criticism. AALARM has claimed that Hillel is "a political, PC hack group," and that it has been "subverted by a radical faction." No such thing. Hillel is simply acting in the Jewish tradition of upholding the sanctity of human life--all human life...
Even now I cannot believe it is really over. Since early 1983, when the term first appeared in print, more than 22,000 magazine and newspaper articles have featured the word yuppie. Can this torrent...
...estimated 1.1 billion liters (294 million gal.) of crude oil had escaped from Kuwait's Sea Island terminal before allied bombing raids on pumps feeding the facility reduced the torrent to a trickle. That makes the spill by far the largest ever, not 12 times the size of the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, as originally thought, but 27 times as large. And that does not include oil that began gushing last week from a second spill farther north. The magnitude of the mess is such that "it can't be cleaned up," says Jim Rhodes, of ABASCO, a maker...
Once Tew broke the losing chain, the Crimson unleashed a torrent of wins. Harvard senior George Polsky rallied to a 3-2 win, and Jon Karlen took four games to defeat Princeton sophomore Chuck Goodwin...
...ones are afraid to lose sight of their parents. And there are complaints about the foul-smelling, claustrophobic gas masks, which have caused children to vomit. Families are haunted by the fact that a toddler suffocated to death in her mask. Talma Rosen, a Tel Aviv mother, faces a torrent of questions from her sons Jonathan, 6, and Daniel, 10, who ask about weapons systems and moving to a safer place. "I have told them that the chances statistically of us getting hurt are very small," she says. "As for military questions, I refer them to their father...