Word: pillars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...according to people she has worked with in each of these areas, Gould quietly becomes a pillar they look to for strength...
...Muslim pilgrims, a high point of the hajj to Mecca is the trek to Jamarat al 'Akaba in Mina, one of the three stoning points of Satan. Each passing pilgrim must cast pebbles at this rock pillar in a ritual that symbolizes the faithful's struggle against evil. At 10 a.m. last Monday the believers suddenly faced a more earthly trial...
...Americans. We need them not only for military security, as important as that is, but in every possible way -- in the economic field, in the cultural field. For the future of Germans in the 21st century, it is of existential importance that our policy rest on two secure pillars: the German- American pillar and the German-French pillar. It is not a matter of either- or but one of as-well-as. And that does not mean we are diminishing other partners...
...message was hard for Moscow to miss. A sign in Russian on a pillar of the government offices read, OCCUPIERS, GO HOME! Another placard urged SOLIDARITY WITH THE LITHUANIAN PEOPLE. Representatives from the restive Baltic republics were on hand to wave their national banners alongside the flag of the short-lived Georgian Republic...
...anti-family shows aren't against the family, exactly, just scornful of the romantic picture TV has often painted of it. Was Dad once a pillar of wisdom and understanding? In the new shows he is either a slob or an oaf. Did Mom used to be the nurturing guardian of home and hearth? Now if she even knows how to put a roast in the oven, she could sear it with her sarcasm. TV kids have always been mischievous, but now they are bratty and disrespectful as well. Standards of decorum have gone out the window too: Dad burps...