Word: bags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before Anthony Lake decided to bag his CIA nomination, White House aides complained privately that he was being bled to death by the "Ted Sorensen strategy." Sorensen was the ex-Kennedy Administration aide who became Carter's abortive nominee for CIA chief in 1977. Of the Lake debacle, Sorensen (now an international lawyer in New York City) told TIME last week: "Been there, done that": "Looking grim and even more somber than usual, [Sorensen] read a vigorous 10-page rebuttal of what he called 'scurrilous and personal attacks.' When he had finished, he picked up another piece of paper...
...Falls, Sioux City, Fargo-Moorhead, Madison, Winnipeg and Thunder Bay. We wave at the trains as they go by, and we always have a good time regardless of what happens on the field. Between innings, a man walks up to the home-plate ump, leading a pig with a bag of fresh baseballs on its back. Once, a player from an opposing team was offended by the pig and turned to the umpire and said, "That is so bush league," and the ump said, "This is the bush leagues...
Every stick of gum, bag of chips and candy bar vanished, frustrating residents who were forced to endure a weekend without sundries...
McCurry said that the president has accepted that his coverage in the media will consist of a mixed bag of stories...
...rest of the league, the bag is mixed. Cornell was winless in the league last year and Penn lost top players Amy Shapiro and Jessica Gilhorn to graduation. Otherwise, it is hard to say who of Brown, Harvard, Yale or Dartmouth is the clear favorite to challenge Princeton...