Word: everyday
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heroically influential person of the 20th century was Andy Warhol. He took everyday culture and turned it into art. Warhol's work was original. It gives the observer the feeling that the person who made it wasn't like everyone else, that this artist was an individual. AMANDA MICHELS Wexford...
...other President had so thoroughly occupied the imagination of the American people. Using the new medium of the radio, he spoke directly to them, using simple words and everyday analogies, in a series of "fireside chats," designed not only to shape, educate and move public opinion forward but also to inspire people to act, making them participants in a shared drama. People felt he was talking to them personally, not to millions of others...
Applied to the world of calculators, that's something of a curiosity. But applied to everyday retail, it's a revolution. The idea of fixed prices is only about 100 years old. Before then nearly everything was negotiable. The last great retail revolution was mail order, led by Sears, Roebuck in the 1890s, and it solidified the idea of fixed prices, since buyer and seller were often separated by hundreds of miles of rail track. In the Internet age even buyers and sellers separated by 10,000 miles of fiber-optic cable are closer than those prairie purchasers were...
...live in countries where the shadow of conflict and the specter of violence hang heavy over everyday life. Yet you have all made the courageous decision to work for the great cause of peace. You have gone beyond talk and belief, to action," Kennedy said...
Diseases like malaria and yellow fever, which almost never occur in the U.S., are everyday occurrences in many underdeveloped countries where, because of poverty, standards of sanitation and public health are lacking...