Word: homefront
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Senate majority leader Bob Dole, disabled from war wounds to his right shoulder and arm, has protested. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin (No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Homefront in World War II) says putting F.D.R. in a wheelchair "would be one of the most powerful parts of the memorial...
...Melrose Place does have something that sets it apart from most of the failed prime-time soap operas of recent years: modest goals. The show does not set out to capture a historical era (Homefront) or reproduce the glitzy New York high life (Tattinger's) or create a parable about going home again (Angel Falls). The characters on Melrose Place have a bland, modern universality. Indeed, watching the show again for the first time since its debut, one is struck by how the personnel have blended together. There was once a black neighbor (Vanessa Williams); she has moved away. Michael...
...noble and vital undertaking, but not an easy one. U.N. forces have, and will, suffer losses. They can rude out these storms, but only if our leaders are able to ride out the storms on the homefront...
Horrors on the homefront are the leading source of injury for women between the ages of 15 and 44. Each year 4 million women are severely assaulted by their current or former partner. Many of the victims fail to make it to the hospital in time: more than half of female murder victims are slain by their husband or boyfriend. "For too long, wife battering has been thought of as a private matter," says Sally Goldfarb of the National Organization for Women's Legal Defense and Education Fund. "In fact, it's a public health problem of epidemic proportions...