Word: grunts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Giant streaks of reflected solar light, haunting our lives with phrases like "Still going..." until we pull down the shades at night. Even in the pristine Colorado Rockies, ten thousand feet above sea level and far from civilization, you would see the ominous grunt...
...fact very few women are calling for the chance to become a grunt. "Nobody is pressuring us on this count," says a Defense official. Women Air Force and Navy pilots are officers, eager to rise through the ranks to senior command. Combat units in the Army and Marines are made up mostly of enlisted personnel without the same opportunities. Some women do argue that any female who meets the physical requirements for combat units should be able to volunteer, but there is no sign of a ground swell. Captain Melea Riley, who commands a training battalion including both...
...polar bear rumbles across the ice pack, joining his family to view the northern lights. Settling down with a grunt, he takes a long swig of Coke. Ahhh...
...untrained eye, tomorrow's Head of the Charles regatta will look like a bunch of numbered boats sailing down the river while rowers grunt and coxswains scream obscenities...
After seeing the way history turned back on itself last week, we have to wonder how future generations will judge our decisions this fall. Someday a Gulf War grunt may be sitting in a Senate committee, grilling Brent Scowcroft about his neglect of the Kurdish allies, and his answers will sound as foreign and twisted as those of Henry Kissinger...