Word: blow
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...black and white. Virginia, once a bastion of segregation, seems an unlikely setting for a brand of biracial coalition that could break the depressing pattern of color-bound voting. Yet if Doug Wilder wins the governorship, the old bugaboo of racial politics will have been dealt a severe blow...
...their springtime migration. In addition, there are deer, which graze on kelp deposited along the beaches, and brown bears, just now coming out of hibernation and ready to scavenge on the shore. How many will die depends in part on whether winds and storms blow the bulk of the spill onto the shore or keep the oil afloat until it can disperse...
Gingrich's victory was a rebuke to the House's Old Guard Republicans, a breed typified by the congenial minority leader, Bob Michel of Illinois. The chunky, blow-dried Gingrich represents the party's Young Turks, ultra- conservative Republicans, many of them elected in the '80s, who are fed up with their elders' deference to the majority. The Old Guard, Gingrich said, "tends to say, 'Oh, gee, ((the Democrats)) are in charge. How can we be nice enough to them that they'll let us pretend we're part of the game?' " In contrast, he declared, "I represent the wing...
...character. "You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you . . . But if you bend to listen to other people, you will grow crooked and weak." The daughter does not ignore this old- country wisdom, "but I also learned how to let her words blow through...
...expulsions that left officials on both sides of the superpower divide grumbling, the Soviets and the Americans each ousted a military attache on charges of espionage. The first blow was struck by the U.S. two weeks ago, when it expelled Lieut. Colonel Yuri Pakhtusov from the Soviet embassy in Washington. State Department and FBI officials accused Pakhtusov of having received classified information about computer-security programs. Pakhtusov allegedly got the documents from an American employee of a U.S. company that does business with the Government...