Word: brush
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have been battling all summer behind the closed doors of U.S. District Court Judge William Hoeveler's ninth-floor chambers in Miami. Their goal: winning the release of classified documents. But many of the texts already made available have hardly proved revealing. Censors have taken a giant white-out brush to entire pages on Noriega's dealings with Bush, North and the late CIA Director William Casey. In a 41-page order that is still secret, Hoeveler this month % gave the defense access to classified documents that Rubino claims will help him prove that Noriega dealt with drug traffickers...
Thus when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control advises that anyone walking through grass or brush in tick-infested areas wear long-sleeved shirts and long pants taped into sock tops, many people actually do it, though the fashion statement is irredeemably tacky. The meticulous daily body inspection that is the most effective preventive is now a normal routine, like flossing teeth. What you are looking for is the nymphal stage of an arachnid (not an insect) that is louse-size only as an adult and that as a nymph has been compared to a dark freckle. Where...
George Bush's first brush with death left barely a scratch on him. As a young pilot in 1944, he bailed out of a burning plane and spent several hours bobbing aimlessly in the Pacific before being picked up by a submarine. If, as Bush later claimed, he took time "to talk to God" after his rescue, crew members of the U.S.S. Finback didn't notice: what they most remember about the young man they nicknamed "Elephant" was his thunderous imitation of a pachyderm on a mad stampede...
...rally to hear Dershowitz denounce Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork. As he stood at the lectern--jacket collar upturned, unkempt hair blowing in the wind--he spoke with venomous wit in loud, indignant tones. I rushed home afterwards to call my parents and tell them of my brush with greatness...
...before those committed in Arab states and most of the nations on Earth, for that matter. But that's no reason to tar those who believe that Israel should be held to a higher standard (it being completely dependent on the U.S. for its survival and all) with the brush of anti-Semitism...