Word: em
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...standard of living, combined with its recent shrinkage. (That is, we are left with less room to stretch out in a show of either masculine or feminine far out--only the fat.)" And his treatment of the various hostile feminist attitudes toward men, ranging from the "castrate'em now" cry to the more moderate "men are women built differently" belief seems circumspect almost to a fault. After reading the essay one questions whether any way exists for retaining some vestiges of the old masculinity and fernininity without relinquishing the indispensible and still incomplete advances in rights...
...33rd President of the U.S. seems, at first blush, an unlikely practitioner of this secretive art. "Give-'em-hell" Harry made plain speaking his trademark; he spared few enemies, in or outside politics. When Washington Post Music Critic Paul Hume panned a singing performance by Margaret Truman, the letter sent by her enraged father made headlines. But H.S.T. was not always as impulsive as his public tongue-lashings suggested. Another review by Critic Hume annoyed the President, and he complained in writing to Post Publisher Philip Graham: "Why don't you fire this frustrated old fart and hire...
...em on? she said...
...last time the Harvard hockey team met up with Clarkson, the Crimson was mired in the middle of an eight-game winless skein--from mid December into February--which included four straight ECAC losses. One of the latter contests was against the Golden Knights, an 8-1, give-'em-the-puck-and-they-put-it-in-don't-they" loss in Potsdam...
...more I thought about my Penn Station encounter, the more I had to dismiss the lock-em-up, cut-their-balls-off solutions so tempting during those first moments of rage. My assailant was a smoothie, not a thug. That was plain from the way he discreetly sidled up to me to show his gun, from his craftiness in taking only those items that could not incriminate him (no cards, just cash), and from his use of icy threats rather than force. No Hobbesian brute this--he seemed instead a rational, calculating man acting out of self-interest, not instinct...