Word: heels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the possibility still remained that the Soviets might use military force to bring the Poles to heel, Olszowski suggested another tactic that Moscow might very well employ: drastically reducing aid and trade, which would leave Poland's crippled economy completely paralyzed. "The Soviet Union can cope without imports from Poland, but Poland cannot do without Soviet supplies," Olszowski declared...
...Coalition for Better Television (CBTV), which claims to represent 400 conservative organizations, including the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority, has been threatening to attack network TV's Achilles' heel by a consumer boycott of its skittish sponsors. The head of CBTV is the Rev. Donald Wildmon, a Methodist preacher from Mississippi, who for the past four years has been monitoring TV as founder of one of the coalition's member groups, the National Federation for Decency. Relying on a new list of TV's most and least "constructive" shows, put together from a survey...
...skirt, which asserts the wearer's class superiority and gender inferiority. Preppie culture has always been patriarchal. Thorstein Veblen, who coined the phrase "conspicuous consumption" at the turn of the century, contended that the leisure class woman's function was to display-her male keeper's wealth. "The high heel, the skirt...and the general disregard of the wearer's comfort which is an obvious feature of all civilized women's apparel" suggested to Veblen that "the woman is still in theory the economic dependent of the man." Despite changes since Veblen's day, uncomfortable skirts and high heels...
...NOTEBOOK--Chuck Marshall is still sidelined with a bruised heel, and may not return until next weekend. at Northeastern HARVARD (6) AS R H BI Chicarello, dh 5 0 0 0 Weller, cf 4 1 2 0 Bauer, as 3 2 1 0 Marteill, 1b 4 2 1 1 Allard, rf 4 1 2 1 Scheper, lf 3 0 1 1 Skaff, 3b 4 0 2 0 Lyman, 2b 3 0 0 0 Wark, c 4 0 0 0 Totals 34 6 9 3 NORTHEASTERN (2) Ferullo, cf 3 1 0 0 Veronesel, 2b 4 0 0 0 Doucette...
...hard-core Right-to-Lifers, many of whom were once liberal, are much more open to conservatism." Weyrich believes that opposition to abortion has had the greatest impact of any social issue in helping to elect conservative Republicans. "It can get at the voters who are the Achilles' heel of the liberal Democrats, the urban ethnics." Weyrich works closely with Paul Brown, head of the Life Amendment Political Action Committee (LAPAC) and his wife Judie Brown of the American Life Lobby. This coalition is allied with evangelical Christian groups like the Moral Majority. Charges the Rev. Jerry Falwell, with...