Word: machos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everyone had an emphatic opinion about the new game. Virtually all women and quite a few men pronounced it sicko or macho-childish, or both. Almost all the remaining men, including a considerable number who were not gun fondlers, wanted to try it. After press reports of the first game, held in New Hampshire last summer, appeared, strangers began calling up Gaines and his friends to ask where they could play. After some early problems with insurance ("You want liability coverage for what?), they began selling kits at $145 each, consisting of the Nel-Spot, a holster, a supply...
...every effort to consolidate control of the nation's highways, where guerrillas have robbed motorists and burned some 80 vehicles in the past two weeks. Instead, the Defense Minister, General Jose Guillermo Garcia, decided to commit crack regiments to chase after guerrillas in Morazan. "It was a stupid, macho decision," said a Western ambassador in San Salvador. "They have to clean out the vital areas of the country before going up into that wasteland...
...factor is a big part of what's new around here," said Even Randolph IV '57. "You've got to notice the females being everywhere." Said his classmate Norman H. Schwartz. "Harvard not a macho, male establishment any more. Observed Richard C. Scott...
Indeed, some critics have argued that Thatcher's strong initial reaction and abrasive tone may have made it impossible from the beginning for the macho-minded Argentine leaders to make concessions. But Thatcher's supporters-and on the Falklands issue, that includes the vast majority of Britons-would counter that her government's belligerent stance was the only possible response to the original outrage of seizing the islands by force. Possibly Britain's greatest error was allowing the Falklands dispute to come to such a pass in the first place. Snaps one senior U.S. diplomat...
Perhaps because of the faintly macho side of computers, the bug seems to strike many more boys than girls in the preadolescent years. Says Steve Siegelbaum, Lewis' teacher: "Maybe it's because boys are pushed more toward math and logic than girls are. Maybe it's because boys are just more aggressive...