Word: donning
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Most Outing-rageous Pressure Tactic Some gay activists decided that the best way to halt gay bashing by public figures was to expose the sexual activities of critics who are homosexual themselves. This practice, known as "outing," caused deep embarrassment to several elected officials. Opponents warned that such tactics don...
Hottest Up-and-Comers The twentysomething generation moved into the working world and offered up some fractured Shakespeare: what to be -- or not to be. The don't wannabes balked at baby boomers' workaholic values, postponed marriage and shunned decision making. As the year wound down, this 48 million- strong...
Then came the real bombshell: "I am resigning." As cries of outrage and surprise sounded through the hall, Shevardnadze waved his hands and added, "Don't react, and don't criticize me. Let this be my personal contribution, my protest against the advance of dictatorship. I believe that to resign...
Pearl Harbor ignited Bush emotionally, though not yet intellectually. He enlisted and went off to the Pacific as a torpedo-bomber pilot. "It was good vs. evil," he says. "The evil was epitomized by Adolf Hitler and Emperor Hirohito. There was never any second-guessing, never any rationalization about what...
The last is probably best, but it can only be temporary. Decades don't really become themselves until about their middle. The '50s died with J.F.K.'s assassination in 1963; the Woodstock Generation did not flower until 1969; Tom Wolfe dubbed the '70s the Me decade in 1976.