Word: macho
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration. Bush believed, correctly, that U.S. participation in the coup attempt would discredit the Panamanian opposition and anger Latin American countries in which the U.S. has more important interests. The President, however, has sent confusing signals by using macho rhetoric about U.S. military options. Such tough talk, designed to quiet right-wing critics, raised expectations in both the U.S. and Panama of American intervention...
...certain how well these soldiers might have fought markedly superior U.S. Army and Marine forces backed by helicopter gunships and operating from several scattered bases. Macho U.S. officers insist the beer-bellied P.D.F. regulars would not have dared to challenge them. Skeptics argue that the limited holding operation the rebels asked for would probably have failed and that U.S. forces would have been forced into a much bloodier fight...
That news stirred hailstorms of outrage. Friendship? What kind of macho was that? "Wimpy!" cried Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ann Richards, showing that she's one of the boys. The Houston city council signed a resolution urging the commission to reconsider, the Houston Post received more than 1,200 irate letters, and the fax machine in the Houston office of Highway Commissioner Wayne Duddleston spat out hundreds of furious protests. Said the befuddled Duddleston: "I had no idea the furor this would cause. I thought the plate was attractive, certainly colorful and highly readable, and that it would promote tourism...
...eight-year-old boy if he wants to play with dolls, and he may paste you one. Better not tell him that a court has ruled that his GI Joe is a doll. Hasbro, which introduced GI Joe in 1964, has always used macho euphemisms like "action figure" to describe the soldier. Since 1982, though, when Hasbro began importing its GI Joe toys from Hong Kong, the U.S. Customs Service has classified it as a doll...
...people have the chance to see two comedies that waft like zephyrs through a movie summer humid with macho derring-do. In their world, romance is bruised but blooming; and the characters are so fully drawn that the moviegoer can become possessive of them, even judgmental, as he would with a friend. Would Sally have faked a fortissimo orgasm in a crowded restaurant? Would footloose Graham come back to Baton Rouge to find a love he lost nine years before? Of course they are not real people, and the difference is crucial in this talk-as-sex era. Real people...