Word: exercisin
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...Chicago last week, he tried to settle them with lawyer-like reasonableness ("I respect your right to disagree . . .") but looked sweaty and abashed on the screen. Bush's reaction to boos from shipyard workers in Portland, Ore., was similar, except for the forced-folksy dropped g's ("You're exercisin' your right; I'm exercisin' mine"). Bush's performance, however, depended on the particular network vantage point. On CBS his counterattack sounded namby-pamby; on ABC, with longer clips of his remarks, he came across more as a feisty battler...
...some orators in Tammany Hall," said Plunkitt, "but they're chiefly ornamental . . . The men who rule have practiced keepin' their tongues still, not exercisin' them...
...mister, this hero's Harvard Yard all right. Rescedin' it. Gonna put it back to grass. How'd it happen? Well, people started walkin' over it, late to classes, I guess. Then them Navy feliers used it for drillin', exercisin', 'n such. Guess they figgered over in University Hall, that they'd let the grass go till after...