Word: corner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nonetheless, the Clinton team is determined to try. It lives in dread of an NSSE--the Disneyesque abbreviation for a national-security special event that triggers special precautions. But with Y2K happening all across the world, a flood of threats has washed in from every corner of the globe, and suspicious characters have been arrested. There's no shortage of danger out there. The government has conducted drills in 27 cities for an NSSE, but the real strategy is "Raise your defenses and plan for the aftermath." So when the Administration's heavy hitters convened in the basement...
...building] has hit [the city] with the force of an architectural meteorite. No question that it's there ... You turn a corner, and--pow!--an apparition appears in glass and half-shiny silver...massively undulating, something that seems...to have been dropped from another cultural world...
Just outside Jovellanos there's Estelle, chatty, about 35, and her 10-year-old Javier, who jump in at a dusty corner. Estelle sighs and laughs as she gets in and says hello. Had they been waiting long? Yes, yes, she says, they'd been waiting an hour and a half. They're going to a town called Australia, 20 minutes away. "Why is there a town in Cuba called Australia?" we ask. Estelle doesn't know. She turns to Javier. Javier has no idea. She shrugs and smiles...
...students here," he says. "But this is an outstanding high school." There was some relief at Columbine when authorities quickly arrested Michael Ian Campbell, 18, of Cape Coral, Fla., and charged him with sending the Internet threat. But DeAngelis also knows that April 20, 2000, is just around the corner. He is already working with a planning committee to make sure the anniversary is a memorial, not a flashback...
...linguistics experts, who've long held that our primary language forms our minds and our perceptions. Since, for example, Western languages are written from left to right and top to bottom, it's believed that when glancing at a photograph, a Westerner will begin at the top left corner and end at the bottom right. People from Asian nations, who read from right to left or top to bottom, however, process visuals differently...