Word: peacenik
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...heroine of the novel is a "teen sex-bomb blond" named Bubbles Brazil. Bubbles is a bad girl, a former Rocky Horror Picture Show groupie who has become a die-hard peacenik ("I was no phony...l was bona fide. I sucked off Jerry Gracia."). But despite her commitment to hippiedom, Bubbles still has a lot of internalized racism knocking around in her drug-addled brain. So her Black maid, who is a sort of cross between Aunt Jemima and Medusa, puts a voodoo spell on Bubbies, giving her a mysterious case of 'negrophobia...
...deal. Rabin had originally pledged to form a centrist administration, but having failed to attract the ultra-nationalist Tzomet party into his coalition, he wound up with a left-leaning bloc, the most dovish in Israel's history. Labor's major alignment partner is Meretz, a constellation of peacenik organizations that favors allowing the Palestinians to decide their own fate...
...nefarious military-industrial complex, it had never had it so good as it did under Stone's favorite peacenik. For the Pentagon and its suppliers, Eisenhower's massive retaliation doctrine had meant slim pickings, for under it a few relatively cheap missiles did all the work of national defense...
Witness Michael Dukakis's tank-driving stunt in his campaign for president in 1988. Dukakis responded to charges of being a dovish peacenik by donning full military garb and hoisting his pathetic little body into the driver's seat of a tank. All we could see was his large goofy head, complete with green helmet, sticking out the top as the tank rolled down the street. It was a photo op turned mockery...
Wyche Fowler, Georgia. The brickbats tossed at Fowler and fellow Georgia Senator Sam Nunn for their peacenik stance are more likely to wound the folksy freshman. He's the one up for re-election, and he doesn't have Senator Sam's hawkish record...