Word: shined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spit-and-shine military town of Lawton, Okla., real men ain't supposed to cry. This is the home of Fort Sill, a U.S. Army post, where soldiers learn to kill with gun, mortar and missile, where the big boys belly up to the bar at Gertlestone's pub and down stiff shots of Jaegermeister, where the measure of a man lies partly in his ability to tuck his pain away in a place where nobody--nobody--can see it. No tears allowed in plain sight...
...seems a little distracting and unnecessary, and the interplay between Coltrane and Eric Dolphy is not always smooth. Not everyone may be able to bear with Coltrane on his very lengthy solos, and with the exception of Dolphy, the rest of the group is rarely given a chance to shine...
...technology in the world makes no difference, however, if people's lives are not changed for the better. And that is where nurse practitioners like Doll truly shine. When she started working in Garden City seven years ago, she was one of only two nurse practitioners, and childhood immunization rates hovered around 50%. Today there are six nurse practitioners, and immunization rates have jumped to 75%. That may not seem like much of a coup, but it means that somewhere there is a little girl who did not suffer brain damage because she never developed measles, somewhere a little...
...METCO] does everything possible to make [minority students] shine," she said...
...most appealing politicians are the ones for whom the disjunction is not so severe--who let a bit of their natural appeal shine through. This can come in handy in tight spots. Ronald Reagan's undoubted insouciance helped him escape blame for the unconventional accounting practices of Oliver North. John F. Kennedy's sense of ironic detachment--common to rich kids since the time of Prince Hal--allowed him to slip out from under the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs. And Franklin Roosevelt's inborn aristocratic bearing led his public to assume during the Depression that he knew what...