Word: brush
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turnabout culminates a quarter-century of legislative and legal maneuvering. The 1963 Supreme Court decision and its broad-brush enforcement by school administrators infuriated conservative Christians, who gradually developed enough clout to force Congress to make a change. The resulting Equal Access Act of 1984 required any federally funded secondary school to permit religious meetings if the schools allowed other clubs not related to curriculum, such as public-service Key Clubs. The crucial rule was that the prayer clubs had to be voluntary, student-run and not convened during class time...
...used way too broad a brush to paint an image of people who hunt and own guns as murderous. My husband and children are hunters. We live in a rural Texas community where, like thousands of other places across the nation, owning firearms is not unusual. We've managed to rear generations of well-adjusted children who have taken their places as respected members of our communities, unlike the amoral animals who perpetrated the Arkansas tragedy. BETH LESCHPER Stephenville, Texas...
...interpret them in one way or another. For instance, if John is strolling through the yard and passes Marc, who he barely knows, looking down at the ground, John quickly surmises that Marc doesn't recognize him or doesn't like him. No matter if it was an intentional brush off, John will decide that he and Marc are not on speaking terms...
...trekked through the mists of the Huang Shan mountains, I came upon a young man painting the scenery with traditional brush and ink on rice paper. He smiled proudly as he showed me his work. It was indeed quite beautiful...for a painting, but it paled in comparison to the living scene before my eyes: a silken shimmer of pastel clouds clinging in tendrils to the tops of mountains, an endless dance of wind and fog that alternately revealed and concealed subtle changes in the dark hills beneath. How futile it must feel for a mere mortal...
...cigarette advertising and marketing. One negotiator, who wanted the industry protected from class-action suits, kicked over a chair in frustration. He lost. McCain, meanwhile, worked diligently to keep allies from bolting. At one point, he called Democratic committee member John Kerry to apologize for a staff member's brush-off. "I'm deeply embarrassed," McCain told Kerry, a fellow Vietnam vet. "You do play an important role." After hanging up, McCain chided his aides: "Look, if John's not in on the takeoff of this thing, he won't want in on the landing...