Word: machos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More than most other naturalists, Fossey bonded with the subjects of her inquiry. When poachers killed the animals she had named Digit, Uncle Bert and Macho, she turned into a Rambo of animal rights. She beat captured poachers and terrified others with sham witchcraft. She shot at cattle that got too close to her "family's" territory...
...pitches, his bat does not touch the ball. The result is a lot more whiffs now than in the old days. Last year batters earned 3% more bases on balls than in 1930, but struck out 75% more often. Flash, not finesse, is the hallmark of modern, macho baseball, where a slugger would rather corkscrew himself into the batter's box on a swinging third strike than ground out meekly to the shortstop. This all-or-nothing attitude is catnip to Ryan, whose fast ball ! still approaches stock-car speeds. The hitters say, "Show me" -- and he shows them...
...with sealed, flexible tubes that contain hydraulic fluid. When the rider lightly squeezes the handles, a plunger pushes a silicone fluid through the tubes, causing the traditional caliper arms to close. "I designed these mostly for women and children," says Mathauser, 68. "Girls don't have the grip these macho guys have...
Angus (Richard Nash) is a perverted and deceitful old man who has raped his daughter for most of her life and justified himself by calling it "love." Lord Owain is a macho, sadistic representative of patriarchal society, who not only forces Macha to wrestle him, but wrestles while his wife--to whom he has been unfaithful--dies in child birth...
...members who pay $225 a year to scale its heights. The reason for success, according to Chris Grover, president of Entre Prises, the U.S. affiliate of a French wall manufacturer, is the result of removing real climbing's dangers. "Indoor cliffs appeal a lot more to people than the macho attitude of 'Let's see how close we can get to killing ourselves and still be able to talk about it in the bars afterward...