Word: tailhook
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...artistic expression that are not familiar enough to find their way in the marketplace. This is a thin rope to walk; the NEA fell off it and broke a leg. But you don't kill the endowment over that, any more than you abolish the U.S. Navy because of Tailhook...
When Lieut. Kara Hultgreen was killed last October while flying, many anonymous claims were made that she had not been qualified to pilot the F-14 and that she had been placed as a token pilot in order to improve the image of the navy after the Tailhook scandal. These claims gained such momentum that they spurred her mother to release her training records after her death. The record showed that Lieut. Hultgreen had been third in her F-14 piloting class and above average as a pilot. Soon afterwards the crash was labeled a mechanical failure. All the claims...
...Geraldine Ferraro was 'rhymes with rich.' " Defined by Webster as "the female of the dog, a lewd or immoral woman," it is uttered -- but usually only in private -- about such strong women as Margaret Thatcher, Jeane Kirkpatrick and Roseanne. Colorado Representative Pat Schroeder, who pressed for an investigation of Tailhook, says she has been called the "Wicked Bitch of the West" for her trouble. T shirts trumpeting 1,952 Bulldogs and 1 Bitch greeted Shannon Faulkner when she enrolled at the all-male Citadel, where the mascot is a bulldog. Linguist Deborah Tannen, author of Talking from...
Still reeling from the Tailhook sex scandal, the Navy was hit again with sexual-harassment charges. Officials revealed they were looking into the complaints of 16 female students at a naval training facility in San Diego who said they had been verbally harassed and, in some cases, groped by instructors. The Navy, hoping to demonstrate its new sensitivity, said an investigation had begun "immediately...
...sharp contrast to the dithering example set by the Navy in the Tailhook scandal, Army officials at West Point moved swiftly and decisively to investigate complaints by female cadets that they had been groped by members of the academy's football team during a pep rally last month. An inquiry found three players guilty: they were given demerits, restricted to academy grounds for 90 days, ordered to march for 80 hours and kicked off the team for the rest of the season...