Word: turned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was no mood change in the country, only one in the narrow political calculations of its major political players: a Republican Congress with a slim majority desperate to play to the activists who will turn out in the fall, a White House too distracted and declawed by scandal to fight and an electorate too content to complain much...
...politicians had not sat down and done the math and found that the poll numbers did not add up the way they had long expected. In the months leading up to the midterm elections, when only the party's hard-core base of supporters can be counted on to turn up, Republicans are more concerned with the priorities of the social conservatives and the business community than with a broader public that doesn't seem to be paying much attention anyway...
...bonfires to burn rats out of defunct air raid shelters. Imagine the wonders he can work when satirizing a sadistically strict math teacher or when describing the ghost of the narrator's little sister. Another ghost story, related by the narrator's aunt by way of Henry James' Turn of the Screw, gains spookiness in the retelling. And the sex talk kindly given the narrator by an avuncular priest, which leads the boy to conclude that "love is in Latin, lust isn't," is uproarious...
...knew that weeks ago; the leak that landed the report in today's Washington Post was meant to remind the U.N. anew that Iraq is still not to be dealt with honestly. "It looks like it came straight from the Pentagon," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell, "timed to turn up the pressure on UNSCOM on the day before Richard Butler addresses the Security Council...
...fluoroquinolones. High doses of vitamin E (over 400 IU) can trigger serious internal bleeding when taken with a blood-thinning agent like Coumadin. Even eating can be tricky. Grapefruit juice intensifies the effects of some high-blood-pressure medications (calcium channel blockers) while aged cheeses, wine and chocolate can turn antidepressants (MAO inhibitors) into poisons. And those are just some of the thousands of cross-reactions that pharmacists know about. New contraindications are added to the list all the time...