Word: brat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year later, Welles arrived in Hollywood with a fussy, je-suis-l'artiste beard and an RKO contract giving him total control over his films. To an industry in robust middle age, Welles was a pampered brat. They called him Little Orson Annie, the Christ Child. One local wit said, "There, but for the grace of God, goes...
...they had voted no. But those 54 votes told Gingrich that he was losing control of the House and would have to give up his best weapon in the budget war. And so, with eyes downcast and voice resolute, he recalled his own childhood as an Army brat, remembering what it was like to live in a family that always seemed to be stretching toward its next paycheck. And then came the clincher: ''It is morally wrong and indefensible not to pay federal workers. I don't care what the rest of you think; I am going to get something...
...HAVE GOT TO BE OUT OF YOUR minds! If that power-mad, petulant brat is Man of the Year, then I am Queen of the Universe! LESLIE HOLMAN-ANDERSON Seattle...
From the age of 10 on, Gingrich lived the wandering life of an Army brat, learning early to form only those attachments that could travel with him. Other children, no surprise, found him rather strange, and he quickly stopped trying to prove otherwise. He found books more reliable than friends, particularly tales of men who brought old empires crashing down and built new ones in their place. Everyone from Ataturk to the Duke of Wellington, Abraham Lincoln to Father Flanagan, figures somewhere in his pantheon. If people don't like him, if they mock his aspirations or despise his principles...
Varenik was a KGB brat--the son of a KGB colonel--and a graduate of the Andropov Red Banner Institute, which trains intelligence agents. He spent a year working at the TASS offices in Moscow preparing for his cover job. His first contact with the cia came a year after his arrival in Germany in 1981. A colleague introduced him to a CIA officer, and for more than a year, each believed he was cultivating the other as a possible double agent. Varenik abruptly broke off discussions in 1983, but the cia had passed him a secret telephone number...