Word: winter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wear white uniforms, like nurse's uniforms. Some people decided to stop me on the street and ask for help one time. Now we have these shirts." She looked down at her heavy, green Harvard University Dining Services polo, and shook her head. "They're all right in the winter but not so great right now." It was a warm, humid afternoon. "You sweat. There's no way you could wear make-up in here. And back then when I started, we didn't use IDs. There was a board with kids' names on it. It was huge." She gestures...
...have to come here in the middle of the winter and the snow is high, then we'll be here," she said...
Brown said that until she visited Israel last winter break, she hadn't felt much connection to it. But in Israel, she said she was moved by a sense of history. "I was able to touch stones that had been touched by millions of Jews over thousands of years," she said...
...Bill Clinton never happened. It's as if we are back to the future, stuck in 1992 with a man named Bush in poll-position to win a three-horse race--with all the pundits silenced by the confounding novelty of this crowded winter carnival. And in '92 we found out that the pundits (even in their tentative comments and predictions) had the odds all wrong--the third horse really matters. Anti-Politics helps Arkansas Anti-Hero nose out Hero in Iraqi-Khaki. Never mind the Blair Witch Project and New Hampshire, Buchanan and weeks of eerie pollster silence...
...stiffen the resolve of the generals to fight on," says Meier. "The last thing they want is to be seen to be caving into the West." But some in the military hierarchy are also wary of being caught in the potential quagmire of a guerrilla war in a Chechen winter. If anything, though, that fear may propel them to accelerate the timetable of their Chechnya campaign. So the question may become not whether the Russians plan to capture Grozny, but whether they're prepared to pay the price for holding...