Word: fingernail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...camp is easier than they expected. And even if it was too tough for boxer Riddick Bowe--he dropped out after 11 days last February--recruits are not immune to society's trends. Krulak, for example, has had to ban the practice, popular among some male Marines, of wearing fingernail polish...
...Citadel's two other female cadets, Nancy Mace and Petra Lovetinska, whom peers ranked as "some of the best cadets this school has ever seen, have reported no incidents while at the school. Still, whether they were slackers or not doesn't mean you should have to endure having fingernail polish smeared on and ignited, as Messer and Mentavlos claim they were forced to. A lawyer for Mentavlos dismissed Poole's remarks as "absurd, ridiculous, a comment of desperation and without basis in any respect...
...four women who entered the Citadel last August after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public, male-only military academies were unconstitutional, claim that they were assaulted and sexually harassed. Despite a careful, court-approved assimilation plan intended to ensure the women's safety, Messer and Mentavlos say that fingernail polish was smeared on them and ignited, that they were forced to sing obscene songs, that their mouths were washed out with cleanser, that they were forced to drink iced tea until they vomited. They also say that when they reported these and other incidents to their superiors, no action...
...transition to high school seemed to hit Alicia particularly hard. In the good old days, says middle school best friend Jennifer Champion, 14, "it was so much fun. We were just always happy. Her favorite symbol thing"--here Jenny sketches on her knee with a fingernail--"was peace, a heart, happiness, harmony, sunshine and then 'flower power.' We'd always write that on our notes." But not long before her death, Alicia told Jenny that she had been hospitalized and had tried to kill herself "tons of other times: she showed me the slit marks on her wrists; she said...
...three months before their first EMI studio gig and seven months before their first single was released. Nor did they desert the radio after Beatlemania became a benign worldwide epidemic. They continued to work hard and play hard on the BBC, recording 18 songs in one throat-strepping, fingernail-rending session. Up to June 1965, they appeared on 52 BBC broadcasts and played 88 different songs -- some their own compositions, but most the band's diligent imitations of American rock and pop tunes...