Word: fairings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fair game. It was something to be poked fun at--after all the guy was pretty stupid. But what was fair game for political commentators can still pose an incalculable threat to college students...
...dissecting a candidate's military career is fair game because it is scrutinizing part of a public service. And asking whether a candidate abused the system to succeed is a good gauge of his respect for rules and equity...
...Games because they vault onto a horse set vertically out from the launching board, making it a narrower and more dangerous target than the women's horse, which is set horizontally. But the Yurchenko is still highly risky for the women. While warming up at the Tokyo World Sports Fair in May, American Julissa Gomez bounced badly off the springboard and hit her head against the horse. Instantly paralyzed, she later lapsed into a coma in a Tokyo hospital. She is now in Houston, and it is unknown whether she will ever regain consciousness...
...self- deprecation has become a favorite rhetorical tactic. Dukakis initiated it at a Democratic luncheon before his acceptance speech in Atlanta, joking that his wife had fallen asleep while reading the text. Bush's own acceptance speech was peppered with such put-downs as "I'll try to be fair to the other side; I'll try to hold my charisma in check." The aim is both to lower expectations and defuse the critics with humor. But does anybody want Rodney Dangerfield for President...
Come the Summer Games, as sure as there will be botched routines and disputed scores, it is a fair bet that an agile sprite in a colorful leotard will emerge as a sweetheart of Seoul. For reasons as difficult to identify as the gradations of excellence that turn silver to gold, sports fans quadrennially bestow their affection on an elfin gymnast. Perhaps it is the daunting mix of skills: the daring speed and height of the vault, the elegance and precision of the balance beam, the strength and fluidity of the uneven parallel bars, the showmanship and gravity subversion...