Word: worded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cannot believe the law should ever sanction euthanasia--the very word sounds sinister to me, an Orwellian corruption. The trouble is, I also like the libertarian thought that a person damn well has a right to die when he wants to. The solution I propose to Cathy is this: what we already have--a quiet, informal, private routine in which families and physicians agree, without fuss and in an unofficial zone below the purview of the law, to withhold further treatment, to cut off nourishment, to shut down the IV, even to administer a little more morphine (a gray area...
Indeed, a cat-and-mouse game has evolved between smoking teens and the special patrols (who cruise for smokers during overtime hours). "They 'make' the car," says an agent. "They see us coming and spread the word." Sometimes the agents double back when the kids think the coast is clear and catch them red-handed. Police cruised past a public park in Broward County one recent evening and spotted two boys swinging on a set of parallel bars. "Is that a cigarette that he's holding?" asked a sheriff's deputy. The officers approached the boys and confiscated half...
Older story: Wordsworth goes to visit Coleridge at his cottage, walks in, sits down and does not utter a word for three hours. Neither does Coleridge. Wordsworth then rises and, as he leaves, thanks his friend for a perfect evening...
...would go so far as to argue that men were programmed to be isolated from one another and that aloneness is our natural state. Silence in male friendships is our way of being alone with each other. Once men have established a friendship, that itself is the word. The affection is obvious, at least to us. A main component of our silence is an appreciation of the obvious...
...boom years of the 1980s--when music lovers were replacing their LPs with CDs--are over. Classical sales have declined from 10% of the record market to about 5% now. To turn a penny, most record companies have halved their output of new classical recordings; instead, the buzz word in the business these days is compilations...