Word: schoolmarm
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Many of them had quit their job or taken a leave to go to New Mexico. None were paid for their time. Jean Hixson was a former W.A.S.P. who taught third-graders in Akron, Ohio, under the sobriquet "the supersonic schoolmarm." Jan and Marion Dietrich were identical twins from California, dead ringers for Natalie Wood. Janey Hart was the wife of a U.S. Senator. Four of them had logged more flying hours than any of the seven men chosen two years earlier as Mercury astronauts. Jerrie Cobb, the first to be tested, was a shy, restless woman who had worked...
...Bush Administration did not come into office intent on changing the world. "There is nothing wrong with doing something that benefits all humanity," wrote Rice in her Foreign Affairs article, with the air of a martinet schoolmarm lecturing her students, "but that is, in a sense, a second-order effect." Bush himself, when a candidate for the presidency, seemed leery about pushing American values on other countries. His Administration, he said in a 2000 presidential debate, would not "go around the world saying, 'We do it this way, so should you.'" But Sept. 11 changed everything. The attacks on that...
...Schoolmarm Joe's moral crusades have so far played well among the media, who lauded him as the "conscience" of the Senate. But Lieberman's efforts go beyond merely speaking out: Lieberman was also one of the chief proponents of the V-chip, the piece of TV hardware that allows a so-called voluntary system of screening programs for sexual and violent content. So-called, that is, because while actually using the V-chip is voluntary, paying for it is not: The chip is mandatory on new TVs, so even if you're not interested in using it - and most...
...hunch that in a two-way debate, Gore v. Bush, the winner would be the governor of Texas. That's counterintuitive: Bush is short on facts and figures, and Gore is a buffed-up schoolmarm with murder in his eye. But I would tell Bush that all he has to do is to stay nice and loose, working Gore in a rope-a-dope sort of way, mocking him lightly, and wait for one of those openings that can produce a fatal sound-bite - something along the lines of Lloyd Bentsen's line in 1988: "I knew John Kennedy...