Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part-time anti-sleaze patrol for the President. In Arkansas last December she persuaded a state trooper to sign an affidavit saying the President had never offered jobs in return for silence about his alleged trysts as Governor. Wright is also a prime source for reporters looking for dirt on Clinton's pesky accusers. But her expertise in Clinton arcana is costing her too. Friends say her lobbyist's salary won't cover the hefty legal fees already incurred complying with an expected subpoena from Whitewater prosecutor Robert Fiske...
...reasonable person. I can always sweep dirt out of my bedroom, and computer science problem sets are probably more important than my daily fix of e-mail. So I tolerate the little things that annoy...
...first six decades of Willie Gill's life, the winding dirt road next to his house in Chilton County, Alabama, was a nuisance. If trucks weren't churning its surface into clouds of red dust, rains were turning it into a swamp. Gill, who is black, never really expected the all-white county commission to do much about it. "But Mr. Agee, he come and put in a paved road just about last year," Gill reports. "I'm glad to have...
...Provost being a "green" administrator weren't so far off. Green, says our source, was taken over by one of those pesky alien pod-people that seem to proliferate in the Yard this time of year. As we all know, the green gook that Harvard sprays all over the dirt is not, as the administrations claim, Hydraseed, but an anti-pod-person pesticide. But this year, they came a little early, and Provost Green was the first victim. President Rudenstine and staff have been trying to keep anyone from seeing or talking to him. Their ingenious plan is to shunt...
...final inning. Harvard hit pay dirt, stroking five runs to win the game by four...