Word: womanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fairly rigid sense of restraint on the part of the Establishment press. For example, when James B. ("Scotty") Reston, the Washington bureau chief of the New York Times, found out that one of his reporters was looking into rumors that John Kennedy had been married to another woman before Jackie, he stopped the investigation. Said Reston: "I will not have the New York Times muckraking the President of the United States...
...family reunion actually went very well, although at times it seemed more like a Shriners' convention. I especially remember getting to know an elderly woman who was so fabulous, I couldn't believe we were related. (Later I learned we weren't.) Best of all, I found that some of my most obvious flaws, like my Groucho Marx eyebrows and perennial bad attitude, clearly are genetic. I shared this observation with a similarly afflicted cousin, and we both admitted that we felt relieved...
...strings out 40 miles of line to catch swordfish. The book brims with the expertise of commercial fishing--and is especially interesting on Greenlaw's championship knack for reading subtle changes in water temperatures to find where the fish are. The captain radiates brisk sanity and humor. Being a woman, she declares, is "no big deal" (though Greenlaw, 38, writes wistfully now and then of wanting to get married and raise children). As captain, she relies on the authority of her competence and her obvious gift for command, whether she is mediating a racial feud among crewmen or pushing them...
PAULINE NYIRAMASUHUKO Former Rwandan leader is first woman to be indicted by U.N. tribunal. And it's for genocide
Office drones of the world, unite! This clever first novel is narrated by a nameless young woman who is killing time and brain cells by working as a receptionist at the stuffy Academy of Material Science in London. Pouring her heart out in a novel-cum-diary, she is attempting to figure out a tumultuous love affair. But while this subject has been handled much better by more sophisticated writers, the author really comes alive in her sharp descriptions of the deadly pettiness of office life: who sits with whom in the company cafeteria; what the people who answer...