Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...released because there's no Secretary of the Navy in place to receive it. The full story: the Defense Department has a designated candidate for the Navy post but is holding back the public announcement in order to justify not releasing the Tailhook findings. The unreleased report on drunken aviators molesting women at the 1991 Tailhook Association convention is devastating: it's expected to recommend courts-martial for at least 12 senior Navy officers. Pentagon officials (with White House blessing) want to stall the findings until after March 23 -- when the defense budget goes to Congress...
...Serbian stronghold in Bosnia. The disenfranchised Muslims there already know what is in store for them if their homeland is officially deemed a Serbian statelet. For 10 months, they have seen their kinfolk murdered and driven from their homes by the hundreds of thousands. They experience terror nightly as drunken thugs prowl Banja Luka's icy streets. They have lost their jobs and most legal status: they need special papers just to walk freely under the open...
...hands of a less skillful writer, this complicated premise might have come off as writing-seminar pretense. But Peck has the talent and energy to flesh out his idea beautifully. Martin and John displays a keen eye for details and striking imagery: a drunken mother ensconced in a dark room "looked like an ice cube in rum;" on the open prairie "the sky gap(es) like an open mouth." Peck's language renders, "My face felt swollen and shapeless, like a moldy orange, as though grief had been shoved into my mouth like a handful of seeds, but I didn...
...Clinton household, Bill was the four-year-old who witnessed his drunken stepfather fire a shot at him and his mother. But Bill, who is 10 years older than his half brother, was also the son who got the chance to play hero. In a now famous confrontation, the 14-year-old Bill told his stepfather, "Daddy, you cannot hit Mother anymore," and the beating stopped. Roger's childhood is filled instead with memories of helplessness -- of having his older brother's arm constantly around him, of being rescued from the house by a brother who took him everywhere, even...
...State Department, under Baker, even managed to botch relations with newlydemocratic Russia. For a long time, under Baker's advice, the Bush administration regarded Boris N. Yeltsin as a coarse, drunken fool. The White House waited to embrace Yeltsin until it was no longer politically possible...