Word: flirting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although he was considered aloof by many and remained devoted to his wife until she died in 1929, Holmes also is portrayed at times as a tremendous flirt, particularly with women he met on trips to Europe. These many flirtations apparently never developed into any physical affairs, but Holmes' warmth is revealed through the poetry he sends across the Atlantic in his romantic letters...
...induce a sense of complacency. A new generation of college-educated women, having never witnessed a female Phi Beta Kappa being told to make the coffee, considered radical feminism as outdated as Gloria Steinem's aviator glasses. By the presidential campaign of 1988, George Bush could flirt with the idea of recriminalizing abortion, knowing the women's movement was not strong enough to retaliate at the polls...
...that powerful people in the Middle East sometimes behave irrationally is to flirt with the obvious. But Friedman buttresses this familiar thesis with fresh, arresting details. He chronicles the mounting debacle of Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, which began with the announced goal of ending the safe haven enjoyed by Yasser Arafat and his Palestine Liberation Organization troops. In this Israel succeeded. That was almost easy, since a lot of Lebanese also wanted to get rid of the P.L.O. The Israeli soldiers were welcomed as saviors: "Everywhere you went in Lebanon, Jews were getting their pictures taken. This...
...dictation? She would not. Tess may chafe at pushing 30, at fetching coffee for dimmer minds with smoother styles, but she will not be used. And now she has a plan. Her new boss is chic Katharine Parker (Sigourney Weaver), who has it all and wants more. Katharine can flirt suavely with clients -- "I'll buy you a drink. Bottle of Cristal? Two straws?" -- and steal ideas from brainy losers like Tess. Well, if Tess can't beat Katharine, she will become her. While Katharine recovers from a ski injury, Tess dresses in her boss's clothes, coifs herself...
...Greenberg, who every winter gathers, repairs and hands out gloves to the homeless. Consider Ray Buchanan and Ken Horne of Big Island, Va., who collect farmers' discarded potatoes and deliver them to the hungry. And consider lanky, 6-ft. 4-in. Graham, 46, and petite, vivacious Medlock, 55, who flirt with financial disaster to keep their project going in order to spread the word about good deeds in an unkind world. The object, says Medlock, is to inspire everyone "to stop being an ostrich...