Word: chafe
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...turns the desert into sludge. Troops wash their clothes in cardboard boxes lined with plastic bags, but socks and underwear can go a fortnight between washings. "We're not getting paid to smell pretty," says Lance Corporal Jason Wilebski, 19, queuing for a haircut. In these cramped quarters, tempers chafe. Some soldiers are not coping at all. One young man shot himself in the foot to earn a ticket home. Fights have broken out in food-hall lines. "We feel like we're football players in a three-point stance right now," says Marine Captain Kevin Norton. "We're itching...
...these are dangerous illusions; when it comes to the imposition of the values of one nation on another, it matters not a whit how pure of heart are the motives of those doing the imposing. Imperialism takes its very existence from the perceptions of those who believe they chafe under the heel of the imperial power...
...office to work, Hill said, universities also need to respect its independence and give ombudspeople access to the inner workings of the institution, a condition that administrations sometimes chafe...
...swept away by "Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South," edited by William Henry Chafe, Raymond Gavins, Robert Korstad and the staff of the Behind the Veil Project" (New Press; November), giving it a starred review. The book and CD draw on the 1,200 interviews with African-Americans that make up the Duke University collection called Behind the Veil: Documenting African-American Life in the Jim Crow South. Says PW, "Viscerally powerful...Readers and listeners will confront ?the dailiness of the terror blacks experienced at the hands of capricious whites,? and of ?the capacity...
Decidedly less sunny are the family men in The Mind of the Married Man (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.; preview 10 p.m. E.T. Tuesday, Sept. 11), successful Chicago journalists who fantasize about affairs (or just have them) and chafe under domestic responsibility. Think Sex and the City minus the Jimmy Choo shoes and cosmos but with an extra dose of dread. Bookended by two close friends, one philandering and the other henpecked, columnist Micky Barnes (creator-writer Mike Binder) fights temptation for his hot new assistant (Ivana Milicevic) while trying to do right by his hot wife (Sonya Walger). (The series...