Word: asses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hold that drinking down. I know how much drinking means to you--how it helps you relax around the women and all--but I'm not so sure you should take the risk while the Senate's still considering your nomination. I hear Sam Nunn is a real tight-ass. From the way he's talking, you'd think he never took a drink in his life...
...reminds me of the time I stood up to Dan Rather when he gave me shit about Iran-Contra. I can't believe Nunn's worried about your social life when you were negotiating in Geneva. You'd think he never got turned on by a little piece of ass. I mean, if you're negotiating arms controls with the Ruskies, wouldn't you be getting a little horny, Boydsy...
...staffers that he would keep his head down and his mouth shut. "I'm not going to operate like Mondale," an aide recalls Bush saying. "I'm not going to leak my differences with policies that are unpopular. No one's going to catch me trying to cover my ass that way." And no one ever did. By the end, even some of Bush's oldest friends fretted. "He's submerged his own views," said former Maryland Senator Charles Mathias. "The question is whether they have survived and will they surface...
...idea Mitchell has for a new Core course deals with the literary impact of witchcraft and might begin "all the way back at the golden ass." Mitchell also mentions his idea for the possibility of a "supra-national course on verbal abuse and verbal praise...
Examples of the former might be someone who wears cowboy boots in the summer time, what with the Greenhouse Affect and all, or a person who wears a beret, which is a pain in the ass, all the time, or anyone who wears a safety pin in his cheek, which is just plain painful, for any amount of time. On the same track, people who only wear light jackets in freezing weather, supposedly because they believe them-selves to be weatherproof but mostly because they are trying to be cool (both physically and mentally), are also representative of this sort...