Word: blushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What is a hero?Captain Scott O'Gradyhad the grace to blush when America welcomed him home from six days of scavenging in Bosnia with the kind of publicity once lavished upon Douglas MacArthur. Navy pilot John McCain, on the other hand, survived nearly six brutal years in Viet Cong captivity and once spat in the faces of startled Vietnamese dignitaries. McCain, now the senior Senator from Arizona, is one of five notable or notorious Annapolis graduates and Vietnam veterans whose interbraided destinies make up Robert Timberg's "The Nightingale's Song" (Simon & Schuster; 543 pages; $27.50), a story thatTIME...
Gadzinski, 31, got his nickname because he plays the instrument with symphony orchestras and aboard ship. Dryfuse, 24, got hers after a port call when her male squadron mates discovered she took kidding well, snapping out comebacks that would make comedian Roseanne blush...
...week after Valentine's Day, but the spirit of the occasion was still happily reverberating for New York's Republican Senator ALFONSE D'AMATO. He called a press conference at a Manhattan restaurant not to discuss Whitewater or debate the balanced-budget amendment but to gush and blush, tell the world that he is in love and even sing a few bars of It's a Sin to Tell a Lie. The object of his affection is CLAUDIA COHEN, the multimillionairess ex-wife of Revlon chairman Ron Perelman and the current gossip correspondent for TV's Live with Regis...
...upsets a lot of people. Unfortunately, sex on the Net turns on a lot of people too. I know. I've been covering sex on the networks for nearly 10 years. Strictly as a professional, of course. I've seen things that would make William Burroughs blush and send Catharine MacKinnon into cardiac arrest. I've had a chance to order whips and chains by the gross, drop in on group sex and download more explicit pictures than are displayed in a decade's worth of Hustler. In one day, I've read more intimate confessions than are found...
...first blush, the veterans have a point. The United States declared war on Japan only after the gruesome bloodshed at Pearl Harbor. Japanese kamikazes--the Hamas car-bombers of the forties--wreaked havoc on American servicemen at sea. The Japanese frequently defied international law in torturing American POWs...