Word: recounting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...each case, the women recount, when it was all over, they took a hard, bruised look at their situation and decided to keep silent. "There weren't any other witnesses, and I felt that it wouldn't be believed," says one, who is now a physician. Why not? "Because I know how powerful his family is, and he does seem to be such an upstanding student." But when they read about the Palm Beach case, they all reconsidered...
...pressures upon young men to "go after" female partners are intense. I remember the bull sessions in my Harvard dorms in which male dormmates would recount their sexual exploits to sexually inexperienced or virgin classmates. This just adds to the pressure. Why should anyone HAVE to have sex if they are not ready for it? I was pressured, ridiculed and cajoled to seek female companionship, and it made life miserable for me because I was not ready for such companionship. The Beatles song "Hey, Jude" is a classic example of perverse pressures put on males to "make it" sexually...
...stories they recount in the refugee camps in the Iraqi town of Safwan are appalling. "Iraqi troops sent a tank to knock down the door of the holy shrine of Najaf," recalls Hajj Hattin. "Then they began looting all the deserted homes. They shot people at random in front of the crowds." Hajj Mohammed remembers a helicopter gunship shooting at civilians in the streets of Najaf. Iraqi soldiers "went into schools to threaten small children into giving the names of relatives they could accuse of being rebels," he says. "If the child did not answer, they shot...
...Well, basically, Evan came to the executive board and said that there seemed to be a discrepancy," said Borden. "Obviously, since he knows Wayne, he got two unbiased sources, Eugene and myself [to recount the votes...
...neither can recount much about her life--where she grew up, if she has children, what she does when she goes home, what she worries about. The question stops them for a minute...