Word: gentler
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Cheney watchers now. Democrats started right away to claw through his congressional voting record for proof that he's no kinder, gentler Republican. Meanwhile, the Republican right is trying to decide what it will mean for the party message that Cheney's younger daughter Mary is openly and comfortably gay. But if you know any longtime Westerners, some of Cheney's reserve is not so mysterious. He was born in Lincoln, Neb., and he was just 13 when his father, a U.S. government soil-conservation agent, moved the family to Casper, a Wyoming oil town with sagebrush edges. At Casper...
...Democrats lavished a good deal of condescension on the Bush convention. They jeered all week at the GOP's kinder-and-gentler diversity pageant, arguing that the gaudy display of pigmentations and orientations and live-and-let-live gem?tlichkeit bears no relation to Republican politics in the real world. New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, implying that the African-Americans on stage in Philadelphia were singing and dancing in a vicious minstrel show, had the effrontery to suggest that Colin Powell was insufficiently black...
...have no daughter! Our daughter is dead!"), I'd like to reassure my family and the New York State Democratic party that I have no intentions of declaring membership in the party of Gingrich, Burton and Goldwater. But I am taking my critical first steps toward adopting a kinder, gentler - dare I say more compassionate - take on selected members of the Grand Old Party...
Thankfully, many of the grislier sequences in Shooting War are interspersed with gentler scenes: a young girl handing a G.I. a daisy, French peasants pitching hay even in a bomb-ravaged countryside, Thanksgiving turkeys being air-dropped to U.S. soldiers in the Far East. But these reprieves are brief: unlike the relentlessly pro-Allied cinematic morale boosters made by Ford and others at the time, Shooting War also shows an Australian infantryman using a flamethrower on a screaming Japanese soldier in Borneo, as well as Japanese orphans shaking uncontrollably from radiation sickness after the U.S. dropped the atom bomb...
...confidence bordering on arrogance" with which they are promoted. The Prince practices what he preaches, and a sign by the lane leading up to his Home Farm announces that YOU ARE ENTERING A GMO-FREE ZONE. Charles' philosophy is simply expressed. "We should," he says, be adopting a "gentler, more considered approach, seeking always to work with the grain of nature in making better, more sustainable use of what we have...