Word: elders
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...Bush, shepherding the President's legislative priorities through the Senate in 2001 and 2002. Lott's problem was ancient history. He had been disloyal to Bush's father, siding with Newt Gingrich against the tax increases that President George H.W. Bush proposed in 1990 and dissing Bush the Elder by participating in a noisy, Gingrichite call for tax cuts during the 1992 campaign. "You think W. doesn't remember Trent knifing the old man during the Clinton campaign?" a Gingrichite reminded me as Lott went down. "It's Bush-family omerta," he added, referring to the Mafia code of honor...
...that one person has a brain and one person has a father-in-law.” Rumors have swirled that Firenze’s father-in-law, Angelo R. Firenze, a Belmont selectman, forced his daughter-in-law into the race to spite his fellow selectman Brownsberger. The elder Firenze responded to the claims, saying, “that’s bullshit. Though Will [Brownsberger] and I are on opposite sides of the political spectrum, we’ve found a way to work civilly together. And besides that, if you meet Libby for more than five minutes...
...Cleese is the elder statesman of the group, Gilliam the member who carved the most distinctive post-Python career, and Chapman the figure of poignancy - the homosexual alcoholic who was dead at 48. His demise touched all the survivors, but it didn't stanch their biting wit. In fact, now that he's dead, they make fun of Graham a lot. On the BBC2 show 30 Years of Monty Python, Cleese intones: "And I'd just like to say for the whole gang, except for the dead one of course, how pleased we are..." And in a 1998 reunion...
...quarterfinal that, at approximately 12:43 A.M. Thursday morning, turned into the best match at the Open in the past 25 years. And after Andre cracked a forehand return winner down the line, a fitting way to win for the greatest returner the game has ever seen, after the elder statesmen and young gun had embraced at the net, after I subsided from yelling uncontrollably for my favorite tennis player of all time, I thought about James.I didn’t know for sure if my fellow Harvard man would be back to this level again, but it seemed...
...Just because I wear a suit, they prejudge me,” said the elder Cronin, the managing partner of Weston Presidio, a private equity firm, and a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers...