Word: relishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...imagine, feminist pressure to accord women full military equality, by allowing them to serve even in the riskiest specialties, has become irresistible. Irresistible, that is, when that pressure is applied to the Pentagon by wily Lillian DeHaven, a U.S. Senator whose scheming soul Anne Bancroft inhabits with rip-snorting relish. The brass, of course, expect O'Neil to fail and prove their patronizing assumptions about gals in combat. There even comes a moment when the Senator, faced with base closings in her state, is willing to trade principles for political survival...
...Mormon, but I have countless friends who have been badly hurt by this cultlike faith. Their crime? Daring to want a more sophisticated intellectual life than their religion allows. After being raised in the suffocating sweetness of family and faith, they find themselves cast out, and although they relish their escape and freedom, a part of them will always ache for that absolutist belonging. Next time you write about Mormonism, look at all sides of this unusual, politically powerful and often cruel religion. SEAN GARDNER Santa...
...Marines relish being different from the other three services--tougher and cheaper, Leathernecks like to say--and that attitude is reflected in their boot camp. While the other branches have relaxed their training, last year the corps stretched boot camp from 11 weeks to 12. "This is not making things easier," says General Charles Krulak, the Marine Commandant. "This is making things tougher--physically, mentally and morally." Unlike the other branches, the Marines have also refused to mix men and women in basic training, which angers some who believe that it shortchanges women. Each sex trains the same...
Halmi may not relish talking about show business, but he can't escape the fact that he is show business. His life is even something of a mini-series. Born in Budapest and married five times, he fought in the Hungarian resistance before moving in the 1950s to the U.S., where he worked as a LIFE magazine photographer and dabbled in race-car driving before turning to TV as a producer of wildlife documentaries...
...same time let us relish our individuality. Tennis, Crew and Ultimate Frisbee are not all the same, and neither are Latinas Unidas, RADWAC, and the Domestic Crisis Outreach Committee. Each group has separate needs and desires that need to be recognized, valued and discussed...