Word: bouting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tsongas has recovered from a serious bout with cancer, which should earn him courage points. Unfortunately, the former senator now seems to feel a need to show the world how fit and healthy he actually is. He does this by dressing up in skimpy bathing suits and going swimming. The only thing that looks funnier than Dukakis in a tank is Tsongas in a Speedo...
Today is the beginning of the rematch of September's nastiest bout--the Senate Democrats versus the president. This time, the president's representative in the ring is Robert Gates, his nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency...
...first postcoup interview, Raisa told the Soviet trade-union newspaper Trud she was so terrified that the plotters would kill her and her family that she suffered speech problems and an "acute bout of hypertension" for which she is still being treated. "Those days were horrible," she said...
Last June, when Charles missed the annual Order of the Garter procession because of his latest bout with back pain, his place in the line was taken by the ancient Queen Mother, who was spry and fit. When the teenage Diana Spencer was engaged to her prince, it was the Queen Mum who stepped in again, coaching her on the fine points of being a royal...
...cost competitors and rapidly aging technology. While IBM and Apple remain the biggest players, with a combined market share of 38%, their rivalry has lost its potency, as brand loyalty has given way to price competition. Today IBM and Apple are more like a pair of aging prizefighters whose bout gets second billing...