Word: awol
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Tisch was just one of several Gore loyalists missing from Gore's June "donor retreat" in Memphis, Tenn. Also AWOL were all but a few Democratic patrons from the key campaign-money centers of Hollywood and New York City. Now, with Tisch's refusal to commit to Gore, the former Veep may have more trouble than he ever imagined raising the $30 million-plus he will need to compete against a crowded--and to date well-financed--field of candidates in the Democratic primaries...
Could there have been a more fitting sponsor for the event than Imperial Leather soap? Britain’s famous sense of irony must have gone AWOL the night that the sponsorship deal was signed...
...BLACK HAWKE DOWN: On July 23, Knopf will publish "Ash Wednesday," a novel by actor-author Ethan Hawke. The book is "the story of Jimmy - a young soldier who is AWOL from the army - and Christy, who pregnant with his child, and their journey toward becoming a family." 11-city author tour; first printing of 100,000 copies...
...judge from Neil Gabler's account in his excellent biography, "Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity," Bill Cahn was no apple-cheeked beacon of cool jazz and high ethics. He was a hustler who had done time for vagrancy and petty larceny, was busted for going AWOL during the War and was discharged after being diagnosed with severe hysteria...
...before my entire company was destroyed and temporary amnesia forced me to wander aimlessly through Europe searching for answers that never existed. It was here that I picked up smoking and mendacity. My only acquaintance was Lt. Slothrop, a rotund and oversexed Harvard alumnus who happened to be an AWOL American...