Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Resign from Yale's Skull and Bones Society...
...image-restyling plans. He's not fooling anyone. Any attempt to act like, look like, talk like or care about the middle class is bound to make him look very silly. George Herbert Walker Bush is George Herbert Walker Bush. He owns a yacht, he's a member of Skull and Bones, and his White House staffers use taxpayer-funded air-planes to fly to stamp auctions...
Pete Spradlin was four when his father was killed in a local mine at 27. Pete was taken in by his grandfather, whose skull was crushed in a cave-in when Pete was 13. Now, at 44, Spradlin works the same rolling seam of coal -- Chilton, it is called -- that his father and grandfather did. Each morning Spradlin enters the Bantam Mine, crouching to clear the sign that reads WORK SAFE AND ENJOY LIFE. But Spradlin has had his own close calls -- a gashed lip that took 16 stitches, a couple of cracked ribs, a broken finger, two teeth knocked...
...national hero--can propose charges of privilege and lawlessness with any sincerity. Here is a president whose Chief of Staff uses taxpayer--funded airplanes to attend stamp auctions, whose idea for solving the recession is tax breaks for the rich and whose club affiliations include Yale's elite Skull and Bones society. There are few better national symbols of wealth and privilege than our president. And Bush still refuses to clarify his role in the best example of governmental lawlessness in the 1980s--the Iran-contra scandal...
...against Judge Clarence Thomas confidentially. But it was easier to consign her to the category of she- devils, like Fanne Foxe, Elizabeth Ray, Tai Collins, Donna Rice, who rise from a public official's past to bring down a man simply for being, well, a man. In this postgraduate Skull and Bones, most of whose members hardly need to worry where their next million is coming from, it is hard to empathize with someone worried enough about her career that she would overlook offensive conduct until it became literally a federal matter...