Word: cowboyed
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...he’d be safe? The foreign experts were doubtful. As one might expect, there was plenty of hostility toward George W. Bush at Charlie’s on Sunday. Most suggested that their friends back home viewed Dubya as the typification of America, a swaggering and headstrong cowboy determined to shoot down everything in his path. (Even if the Democrats can’t register these foreigners to vote, perhaps they should consider hiring them as speech writers...
Fiction: The standard Midwestern uniform consists of cowboy hats and NASCAR apparel...
Fact: In my junior year of high school, I remember there was a big brawl in the school parking lot between some cowboy boot wearing hicks and a group of gangsta-wannabe thugs. If that’s not cultural diversity at its most potent, then I don’t know what...
...want to tell you directly, from my own mouth, why I feel the way I do about this." And then Edwards--Gephardt and Lieberman do almost exactly the same--said Saddam is a real threat who needs to be disarmed, but quickly moved on to the President's "cowboy mentality" and diplomatic depredations: "Your family is safer in a world where people look up to America than in a world where we are hated." At this, an elderly woman named Jane Majors scribbled a sign with Magic Marker and held it above her head: BUT WAR WILL MAKE THEM HATE...
...similar learning curve faces the celebrity executives leading some of China's top private companies. Most came of age during early capitalist reforms, when a cowboy approach made them popular--though their talents sometimes failed them outside China. Wang Licheng, 42, CEO of Holley and one of China's most celebrated executives, typifies the breed...