Word: frowns
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...about the loss of personnel in their units as a result of shipping home pregnant women. When Collins brought a group of female soldiers--assigned to search women during raids on suspected insurgent hideouts--to the 10th Mountain infantry's camp, she says, "the men all had one big frown, as if to say, 'What the hell are you doing here?'" She angrily demanded the infantrymen give her female soldiers breathing space so they could prove their worth. Usually in such circumstances, the men oblige, says Collins, but that doesn't spare women some awkward moments. "Even when I take...
...students had won some unspoken contest, coming out on top in spite of the frown-clowns who’d dismissed their course as a naïve self-help seminar. They’d called it a group therapy circle, a class better suited for a church basement than the most prestigious lecture space at Harvard. They had said, in sum, that 1504 was not a real class...
...Notebook,” may need to find comfort in their Kleenex. Lynn Redgrave, real-life mother to Richardson, fittingly plays Sofia’s mother, while Richardson’s aunt Vanessa plays the mother of Sofia’s dead husband. The two hypocritical society women frown upon Sofia’s prostitution, yet complain little when she brings home the money. This Redgrave Reunion is an acting feast, and I’m not going to lie that I was disappointed Joely Richardson didn’t take time off from “Nip/Tuck...
...with all of it ending up in the flat-bottomed pans that are still used to make paella today. These peasant origins are the reason that true paella can contain everything from snails to rabbit (the chicken-and-seafood variant is a latter-day affectation that brings a concerned frown to the face of many Valencians). Paella's humble beginnings are also honored in paella picnics - still common in Spain - where whole families will gather for an outdoor cook-off, harking back to a time when communal meals were taken in the fields. These days, paella purists will argue into...
...with all of it ending up in the flat-bottomed pans that are still used to make paella today. These peasant origins are the reason that true paella can contain everything from snails to rabbit (the chicken-and-seafood variant is a latter-day affectation that brings a concerned frown to the face of many Valencians). Paella's humble beginnings are also honored in paella picnics-still common in Spain-where whole families will gather for an outdoor cook-off, harking back to a time when communal meals were taken in the fields...