Word: circusing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Democratic Senator Joe Biden, on CNN's Larry King Live, wondered if relentless interrogation along personal lines would "make politics like a circus." Emphasized Biden, whose strong family life has been a political asset for years: "I don't have anything to worry about in the sense that there is a culpable act in my background or that I have a promiscuous life- style...
...imposed seclusion in Palm Springs, Calif., last week. Flanked by Wife Tammy and Son Jamie, 12, the boyish Bakker, once ruler of the $129 million PTL television and theme-park ministry, delivered a message of conciliation ("We will not fight -- we don't want to be part of a circus") and seeming acceptance ("Without a miracle of God, we will never minister again...
North Dakota, a young team, sports the nation's leading scorer, Tony Hrkac, which rhymes with circus, which is the type of show he usually put on. The sophomore center set a new NCAA single-season scoring record by recording 45 goals and 66 assists for 111 points...
Still, the circus of sleaze didn't unfurl its tend until Meg made her fatal mistake--she died. When her children, Bessie and John, found out that they didn't even get the placque that used to hang over the kitchen sink with the Lord's Prayer on it, all hell broke loose. Special crack teams of Rockefeller lawyers, trained in jungle survival techniques by G. Gordon Liddy and in rhetoric by Jesse Jackson, sprang out of camouflaged foxholes to launch a frontal attack on the U.S. judiciary system. The objective: $50 million in diamonds, stock, and Third World countries...
Breaking through the circus-like passageways of the Garden, you get into the arena itself. Immediately you ask yourself, "Is the ice surface really smaller here than at Bright?" Then you imagine a Gene Hackman-like hockey coach measuring the ice surface much like he did the basketball court in the movie Hoosiers...