Word: yank
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...painfully memorable day this spring Jack Reese did a crazy dance in the middle of a persimmon grove on his farm in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. Flailing wildly, he tried to yank off his pants and swat his ankles at the same time. He had made one of the worst mistakes a Southern farmer can make: he forgot to watch the ground for a moment and thus tromped on a foot-high mound full of fire ants. Incensed by the intrusion, the insects promptly swarmed up Reese's legs, stinging him mercilessly over and over again. It felt like dozens...
...message. The ranks of conservative Christians, Reed said, are now "too large, too diverse, too significant to be ignored by either major political party." Not long ago, America's Christian right was dismissed as a group of pasty-faced zealots, led by divisive televangelists like Jerry Falwell, who helped yank the Republican Party so far to the right that moderates were frightened away. But Reed has emerged as the movement's fresh face, the choirboy to the rescue, a born-again Christian with a fine sense of the secular mechanics of American politics. His message, emphasizing such broadly appealing themes...
Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) was talking pretty tough today when he introduced a bill to tighten the U.S. embargo against Cuba and yank financial aid to any former Soviet country that helpsPresident Fidel Castro. Helms said he will not be satisfied until Castro is gone. "Let me be clear," the senator said, reverting to Cold War lingo. "Whether Castro leaves Cuba in a vertical or horizontal position is up to him and the Cuban people. But he must -- and will -- leave Cuba."TIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Boothreports that Helms gets many...
...last week in the Defense Ministry, which is led by his old comrade General Pavel Grachev. Yeltsin met with Prime Minister Chernomyrdin and parliamentary leaders who had just been added to the top-level Russian Security Council. Afterward, upper-house leader Vladimir Shumeiko reported that they had decided to yank control of the armed forces general staff out of the Defense Ministry and place it directly under the President. This would make Yeltsin commander in chief of the armed forces and leave to the ministry basic but poorly handled tasks such as training and supplying them. Such a move could...
...officials vowed to clamp down on their fundraising apparatus in -- of all places -- the United States. "Jihad in America," the first look at the groups' U.S. activities, airs Monday from 9-10 p.m. EST on many PBS stations, despite protests and intense pressure from U.S. Muslim groups to yank it. The documentary begins with the World Trade Center bombing and winds through a 38 city support network. PBS, rattled by Muslim accusations that it's an unfair attack on the 6-million-member minority, is now giving Islamic leaders a platform on the "Charlie Rose" show Monday. But Martin Koughan...