Word: cowing
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...unconventional, from his choice of towns that he is focusing on - Clinton strongholds like Scranton, Altoona, Wilkes-Barre, mostly working-class and white with lots of Catholics - to his quirky events. The Illinois Senator has scarfed down a hot dog and then gone bowling in Altoona, fed a baby cow in State College, sloshed back a beer and watched college basketball in Burnham, sampled the fares at a chocolate factory in Reading and, oh yeah, led some town halls and rallies as well. "I've been having a good time," Obama told an audience of 2,000 in Lancaster Monday...
...together, we don’t have a number four, we got a legit number one,” Walsh says. “If he could get into that starting role and throw strikes and win some games for us, holy cow, would that be a big difference.”Right now, it doesn’t look like Cole will be stepping into the starting spot quite yet. First he must regain his eye for the strike zone, a task on which Cole and new pitching coach Aaron Landes have been working.“For [Cole...
Mermaid's Palace (Chicken Socks, $14.95). Make a mermaid's home, furnish it with the punch-out bed and sea creatures, then accessorize your mermaid with shells and pearls. A little too fiddly for kids under about 7, and clean-up's a cow, but pretty engrossing...
...cool requires a certain distance, and distance easily slides into remoteness. Sitting on a tractor in Texas on March 4, he didn't look as out of place as Michael Dukakis in a tank - but he did seem like a tourist getting his picture taken with a longhorn cow, a visitor to the hinterland. He badly needs to get down, get gritty, sweat a little, show that he is willing to scuff his shoes in pursuit of the nomination. In most cases, you don't achieve the presidency without surviving a near-death moment - and, if nothing else, Clinton...
...With a Plan but had never showed any interest in public policy - won the G.O.P. primary to challenge Senator Leahy with a $16 campaign budget. (The key moment came during a radio debate, when he stumped his multimillionaire opponent by asking: "How many teats are there on a cow?") Tuttle proceeded to endorse Leahy before the general election, which probably wasn't what the Republican National Senatorial Committee had in mind...