Word: wade
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most famous golf course, the Grand Cypress resort, has reconstructed the layout of the hallowed Old Course at St. Andrews in Scotland. The Florida Peabody Hotel copies a ritual of the original Peabody in Memphis: every day at the appointed hour, mallard ducks waddle off the elevator to wade in the lobby's marble fountain...
Gorbachev struck back with a ban on all public demonstrations in Moscow for three weeks, suggesting that deputies in the Russian parliament would be intimidated if they had to wade through an ocean of yelling Yeltsinites. To make sure the ban was enforced, the President took police powers away from the city council and turned them over to the national Interior Ministry, which mustered a virtual army of trucks, water cannons and troops in riot gear. Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov spoke of "looming threats," and Anatoli Karpychev, deputy editor of Pravda, the party daily, charged that radicals were planning...
...deciding what to do, you have internal standards to check. When you are in a group setting, when you are less self-focused, you don't check these inner standards. You are more likely to check the standards around you." It takes a strong, poised character to wade against the currents of group will. Those cops who witnessed the Los Angeles beating, not participating but not objecting either, allowed themselves to be borne passively along by the stream of violence. Something of the same process may have occurred among the teenagers who went "wilding" in New York City's Central...
...kindred units in the anti-Iraq coalition. So strongly did Schwarzkopf feel about dramatizing the Arab role that he was expected to pass up any uninvited triumphal visit to Kuwait. In 1944 a jut-jawed General Douglas MacArthur had made a point of being the ceremonial first to wade ashore in the recaptured Philippines. In 1991 Schwarzkopf remained at Desert Storm headquarters in Riyadh extolling his command's "great coalition of people, all of whom did a fine...
...York Times story a few years ago about the first year at Harvard revealed that most students find themselves depressed frequently and wade through these low times by watching hours upon end of television. The reason for their depression? Loneliness...