Word: chawing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Glenn, didn't do such a great job managing the Dodgers, but Trevor had 53 saves in 54 attempts with a 1.48 ERA. He does get major style-point deductions for the way he spits out flecks of tobacco and tobacco juice when he's on the mound. Seeing chaw particles on his lips just doesn...
...GOODGAME first met Bill Bennett while covering the Bush White House. "He was working on a chaw of Nicorette," Goodgame recalls of the then drug czar, "as he struggled--successfully--to overcome his addiction to cigarettes." This week Goodgame, now TIME's Washington bureau chief, profiles the Republican commissar of virtue. Traveling with Bennett, he reports, "is like a very good graduate seminar. When Bill finds something he likes to read, he's like Abe Lincoln, rereading the best parts until he's able to declaim them from memory. He has the same memory for anecdotes, including jokes...
...years ago, smoking was going the way of snuff and chaw in Washington. Hillary Clinton outlawed it in the White House, forcing chastened inhalers onto the lawn. The Democratic House Speaker Thomas Foley prohibited smoking in public areas on the House side of the Capitol. A joke circulated on Capitol Hill that smoking was welcome only in the offices of the North Carolina congressional delegation...