Word: flexed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often frighten leaders into conforming to a more humane agenda. Richard Nixon panicked when anti-war demonstrators flooded into Washington to protest his invasion of Cambodia. The recent Million Man March proves that working and middle class resistance to today's reactionary climate can be tapped. Liberals need to flex their might in the streets. Corporations should be held accountable for using Third World slave labor. Cops like Mark Fuhrman should fear for their lives...
...want isolationism in international issues, but in the sense of isolated participation and decision making, not isolation from the issue themselves. In our post-Cold War ambivalence, we fluctuate between the desire to decisively flex our muscles on our own superpower initiative, as we could during many of the Cold War years, and the sense that dis-involvement in anything that does not directly pertain to us is best. Hence, we call for air strikes on Bosnia, but refuse to send our own troops in there; hence, we act unilaterally to revoke the arms embargo while U.N. policies languish...
...spearheaded by the legislature and not the party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. At the end of the annual legislative session last month, Qiao called on parliaments at all levels to perform their duties in strict accordance with the country's constitution. He also seemed ready to flex some political muscle of his own. During the Congress, record numbers of Deputies voted against several of Jiang's candidates, a sign of the Congress's growing independence and Qiao's willingness to make common cause with provincial leaders worried about Jiang Zemin's accumulation of power...
...dangles form ropes exposing his taut, sinewy body. The scene is choreographed as gracefully as a ballet. Later in the play, he delivers a speech upside down, supported by his ankles, with his shirt falling on his face and exposing his chest. The dimples of his abdomen flex each time he speaks, rendering his stomach an amorphous face...
...house, thus fueling divorce and abandonment. And in a broader sense says University of California, Berkeley, sociology professor Arlie Hochschild, author of the landmark study about two-career marriages, The Second Shift, "we do not have a family-friendly society.'' Better day care, plentiful jobs at decent wages, flex- time and job sharing would all help to reduce the stresses on American households, which are overtaxed, overburdened and overwhelmed. And while entering into marriage with the utmost care and deepest consideration can only be to the good, it may be marriage itself-along with the most basic institutions like...