Word: touchingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...residents as they slept at 3:02 a.m. At the end of last week, more than 13,000 bodies had been found. The U.N. expected the final toll to climb toward 40,000, based on the number of pancaked dwellings, making this one of the worst natural disasters to touch Europe in this century...
...called extreme sports is way up. Snowboarding has grown 113% in five years and now boasts nearly 5.5 million participants. Mountain biking, skateboarding, scuba diving, you name the adventure sport--the growth curves reveal a nation that loves to play with danger. Contrast that with activities like baseball, touch football and aerobics, all of which have been in steady decline throughout...
...newsgroup was established by the council delegate from Dudley House, Brett A. Barbaro '95. Barbaro said he started the newsgroup because he felt the council should be more in touch with the student body...
...grim, impersonal regularity of natural disasters, we are often unmoved by statistics. It is the individual snapshots that bring Turkey's tragedy home. In the devastated town of Duzce, a British rescuer wedged deep in a narrow crevice heard a tap-tap-tap so close he could almost touch whoever was making the sound. Then an aftershock cascaded masonry through the 30-ft. tunnel as the rescuers slithered back out. When they took another route and reached the spot where the tapping had been heard, two dead bodies lay there. "It hurts when it ends like this," team leader...
...value of the original work. Today artists such as Kinkade operate high-tech facilities that bond lithographs to an acrylic that can be rolled or even sprayed onto canvas with the details so fine that even the brush strokes are replicated. Kinkade's studio employs a team of 30 touch-up artists whose sole task is to hand-paint highlights onto the prints, enabling the sales team to market each one as a "unique" work that looks very much like an original...