Word: flak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PERMITTED Location, location, location! Last week Senator John McCain caught some flak after filming part of a campaign commercial in Arlington National Cemetery. This is a no-no because partisan activity isn't allowed on Army property. We asked a few guerrilla filmmakers to give McCain advice on shooting...
...some 1,200 bombs on nearly 300 targets and destroyed 139 anti-air artillery guns, 28 radars, 13 mobile surface-to-air missile launchers and 22 command sites--all without a single scratch on American property. For the most part, the Iraqis lie low and launch a flurry of flak, hoping to down a warplane and deliver a live pilot to Saddam. "If you're looking at the right place at the right time, you can see the muzzles flash," says Captain Brian Baldwin, an F-15 pilot. "They're looking for the golden...
...also changed the outgoing message on her answering machine so it now bears her Mary Kay title--a move that has earned her some flak...
...been booked. The guest? Former President George Bush. He was in Philly giving a speech and asked for the $1,400-a-night Presidential Suite at the Rittenhouse Hotel. Who could say no? Not David Benton, the tony hostelry's general manager, who has been taking "tongue-in-cheek flak" from his competitors ever since. But the rule that no rooms can be booked still stands, says Rendell, unless "the person asking to book the room is a former President whose son is the leading contender...
...Western ground troops in the middle of a shooting war. Though the "policy shift" reported by the Post could be something of a trial balloon (the Washington Post and the New York Times are often used as litmus tests by government officials), expect it to draw some fearsome flak, either...