I'm unable to work or parent effectively for months or even years at a time - then the tide goes out and I feel "normal" for a while, able to function again.

BBC: Bipolar holiday

Time and again U.S. diplomatic cables sent from Arab capitals noted a growing tide of popular resentment toward their rulers.

CNN: Gadhafi's demise and the Arab Spring

Those pictures were her one real memento of him, page after page of watercolors from a world that, even before she opened the book for the first time, was gone forever, leaf green and sky blue and damson, wiped out by a tide of cattle trucks and unmarked graves.

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