Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...office. Chelsea was off on a school trip, so Bill and I decided to have dinner outside on the Truman Balcony. All the cares of the day -- I could just feel them ebbing away, sitting out there looking at the beautiful spring. The air is so ; soft. Everything is blooming. Bill and I have just been wandering around here in this dazed spring fever...
...some time -- a few hundred out of more than 41,000 pilots in all the services. It is still a dramatic departure in American society and its armed forces. The new era was symbolized at Aspin's Pentagon press conference by Air Force Captain Sharon Preszler, 28, a soft-spoken strawberry blond. "I can be a killer," she said firmly. "I can and will kill in defense of my country...
...Hillary is in a position no First Lady has ever experienced. As the icon of American womanhood, she is the medium through which the remaining anxieties over feminism are being played out. She is on a cultural seesaw held to a schizophrenic standard: everything she does that is soft is a calculated coverup of the careerist inside; everything that isn't is a put-down of women who stay home and bake cookies. As she sits in the White House on a spring day, she seems to be bending with the burden, more relaxed and philosophical < about what life...
Time for an orderly transition of power, right? Wrong. Time for a cover-up. Time for Dave Kovic (Kevin Kline), a presidential look-alike, to step into President Bill Mitchell's not exactly unfillable shoes. Dave is the owner of a soft- (not to say bleeding-) hearted employment agency whose uncanny resemblance to The Man has led to a nice little sideline, impersonating him first at the openings of car dealerships and other lowball promotional fests, then, at the Secret Service's behest, at a real presidential function...
...scene of the carnage, forensic experts tiptoed through still smoking ruins, amid popping ammunition and exploding cans of fruit. They removed one soft, crumbling body after another, laying them in body bags side by side for removal in a refrigerated truck. Tiny orange flags fluttered everywhere that bodies had been found -- nine of them clustered at the central cinder-block bunker, with a weapon still visible mounted on top. On the main flagpole, where Koresh liked to fly his Star of David flag, the Texas and ATF flags flew at half staff...