Word: manly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LaBudde, a biologist with Earthtrust, a Honolulu-based wildlife protection group, describes drift nets as "the single most destructive fishing technology ever devised by man." Drift nets work by entangling sea life in their nylon mesh. Ships later reel in the nets, taking out the squid or fish and discarding unlucky marine bystanders. It is like hunting for deer by poisoning every animal in the forest...
...Japanese, though, have never been passive conservationists. Consider the bonsai, the tiny trees that are shaped over generations into living pieces of sculpture. The bonsai represent the landscape architect's respect for nature, but also the notion that nature is at its best when shaped by the hand of man...
...since some of the typewriter bugs were battery powered, the Soviets must have had a way of getting into secure areas of the embassy to replace these batteries. Remaining in Moscow to figure out how this might be done, this official wrote a report warning that a Soviet Spider-Man was scaling the embassy wall at night, squeezing through a tiny window and making his way to the code room. He also warned that the Soviets had enlarged the flues built into the embassy walls, and that KGB technicians were using them to climb up to the secure floors...
...actually looks different. One of his principal aides claims that three or four times recently, when discussing highly charged issues like the upheavals in China, Bush has cooled his own emotions with the line "I'm the President now." There is little question that this realization can change a man's manner and mien...
...When Roger Ailes was asked to help get Bush elected, he applied his paramount rule for taking a job: "The candidate can't be nuts." Ailes figured then and figures today that he found a man cast in the concrete of sanity...