Word: cameleer
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Public financing of presidential elections would relieve a national concern magnified by Watergate: the unhealthy dependence of major candidates on large private donations. In 1971, Congress passed legislation that amounted to a kind of camel's nose of public financing. It permitted each taxpayer to check a box on his income tax form to indicate that $1 of his taxes ($2 for a couple filing jointly) should go into a fund for presidential campaigns...
...taut elegance of Sadiqi Bek's Lion Tamer and the grace of Riza's A Young Man in a Blue Cloak prove that these two were artists of the first rank. And the drawings of Mu'in Musavvir, Riza's most gifted student, are delightful. His Squatting Camel is not to be missed...
...much for the comparisons of opponents. The real key to the game tonight will be the play of Terrier goaltender Kevin Walsh. If Walsh is having a good night, it will be easier for Harvard to pull a camel through the eye of a needle than to put the puck...
...Fair is fair, by God; now Camel cigarettes should excavate the world's ranking 55-year-old women's tennis player and have her play Stan Smith on the roof of the Playboy mansion...
...question, said the committee, because the site lacks "statewide significance and impact." After some research, the La Habra group found that other sites that have been approved include "a place where a bandit was hanged and the grave of a camel driver," and decided to appeal the decision...