Word: badgering
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...architecture. Its great expression was the iron grid, which begat the skyscraper. The technology of cast-iron joists and columns as the skeleton of a multistory building had come from Europe, but it mutated and ramified in the U.S., especially in New York City. There early architects like Daniel Badger (1806-84) popularized it and crossed it with mass production...
...greatest engineering feat of 19th century America and, with a central span of 1,595 ft., by far the longest suspension bridge in the world. Its soaring Gothic-arched towers also predicted the vertical city, whose chief element--the high, steel-framed palazzo block--had been adumbrated by Badger but reached its first maturity outside New York in the 1890s, in the buildings of Louis Sullivan and others...
...politics of 19th century German settlers, and the state's welfare system served as a model for the 1996 national welfare-reform bill. In a state known for harsh winters and short summers, favorite pastimes include watching hockey and the Green Bay Packers with their devoted "Cheesehead" fans. The Badger State has nine House seats, and with two being vacated by the G.O.P. and another held by a freshman, the Republicans need an escape act similar to native son Harry Houdini's to continue their 2-1 House majority...
Hirschbeck called strike three on an outside pitch, and an irate Alomar argued the call, causing him to be kicked out of the Baltimore Orioles-Toronto Blue Jays game on September 27. This so enraged Alomar that he bolted from the dugout after ejection and continued to badger Hirshbeck. The war of words persisted until Alomar actually spit in Hirschbeck's face. Davey Johnson, the Orioles' manager, then removed Alomar from the field, and prevented further confrontation...
...alternative movement has progressed from offbeat practitioners and adventurous patients to the medical establishment itself, as well as a growing number of health insurers. "We do a lot of clinical trials and research with these treatments," says Cary Badger, vice president of Kaiser-Permanente of Northern California, which reimburses its 5 million subscribers for some alternatives. "But our ultimate judges are our physicians, who feel these are reasonable alternatives...