Word: lifeblood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recognizing that the lifeblood of Radcliffe is its alumnae base, and realizing that base had been first ignored, then alienated and finally betrayed by vague press releases, Wilson is now working to cater specifically to the constituency that erupted in dismay this spring...
...took a while for G.O.P. leaders to warm up to a campaign that not only violates the party's core aversion to Big Government fixes but also alienates the business interests that are the party's political and financial lifeblood. Senate majority leader Trent Lott and whip Don Nickles put out the word last October that their party was on the side of the insurers, and it was time to strike back. "The message we are getting from House and Senate leadership is that we are in a war, and need to start fighting like...
...ocean has long been the lifeblood of the New England economy, and all along the coast fishing, whaling and shipping ports testify to the crucial role the sea has played in the history of the region...
...petulantly, "But Eliot, that man isn't modern. He wrings the past dry and pours the juice down the throats of those who are either too busy, or too creative to read as much as he does." "The juice of the past" isn't a bad description of the lifeblood of The Waste Land; but it was a past so disarranged--with the Buddha next to St. Augustine, and Ovid next to Wagner--that a reader felt thrust into a time machine of disorienting simultaneity. And the poem had an unsettling habit of saying, out of the blue...
...allocate $90,000 and we have requests for $200,000," Stewart said. "Studentgroups, which are the lifeblood of non-academiclife here, are operating under severe financialconstraints...