Word: luckiest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush always knew this. He rode his privilege joyously through these first 75 years but always with good humor, and every step of the way he thanked God and anybody else within earshot for "being the luckiest guy on earth." His constant awe about his luck may have been one reason he did not win a second presidential term, but once again Providence may have been dealing out a lucky hand, clearing the way for a new generation that could elevate him to something greater than mere political power--patriarch of history's most commanding family in American public life...
...test of wills in which one side had all the weapons but both underestimated the other's staying power, Milosevic cracked first. The chilling spectacle of NATO slamming 20,000 bombs and missiles into Yugoslavia can come to a merciful end. Bill Clinton proves--again--to be the luckiest President alive. At nearly the exact moment that Clinton gathered the Joint Chiefs to confront the unpalatable implications of a ground war to salvage the stalemated air campaign, Milosevic handed him victory...
...Sleep until noon, have a great brunch and get a jingle from my sons saying, 'Love ya, Ma.' Take a long walk in Central Park and see a movie with the man in my life for the last 30 years. Snooze off later, counting myself among the luckiest Moms in the world, and dream that every mother everywhere had the chance to enjoy the same kind...
...Mark McGwire's 70th home-run ball 2 $640,000 - 1909-10 trading card of Honus Wagner (1996 auction) 3 $363,000 - 1927 Lou Gehrig road jersey 4 $306,000 - Jersey worn by Lou Gehrig the day he gave the "luckiest man" speech in 1939 5 $222,500 - 1909-10 trading card of Honus Wagner (1998 auction) 6 $220,000 - 1938 Lou Gehrig jersey 7 $220,000 - 1942 Jimmie Foxx jersey 8 $176,000 - 1922 Ty Cobb uniform 9 $172,500 - Sammy Sosa's 66th home-run ball 10 $132,000 - 1929 Babe Ruth road uniform...
...will do everything in his power to suggest otherwise. There was never much chance that Clinton would delay his speech until the trial was over. Never in memory has a President had so much to brag about and so many reasons to do it loudly. Clinton, forever the luckiest of men, is the luckiest of Presidents to be presiding over America in 1999, when everything that should be up--incomes, the markets, test scores, productivity--is up, while everything that should be down--inflation, crime, welfare rolls, teen pregnancies--is down. And he's lucky right down to the timing...