Word: fastener
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...investigative interest subsides, the G.O.P. may try to revive it. As Ferraro knows well, when national figures come under suspicion, the public and press fasten on to the reputed rascals and do not easily let go. There can be a rather voyeuristic zeal about such searches for official wrongdoing, and prosecutory momentum, once begun, is difficult to slow. Bert Lance, Jimmy Carter's budget director, was forced to leave office, tried and found guilty of nothing. So great is the power of stigma, however, that when Mondale tried to make him his campaign director, Lance was forced to step down...
...deal with poverty and childhood and the way we deal with childhood. There's always that tension between that imagination and that power of the mind and then the horrible world, closing off more and more doors. Now the danger of this is you can romanticize, you can fasten on to this in such a way that, politically, it can be used to say. "Now look how wonderful these kids are. Who wants to bother with them...
...morning they strap on their helmets, then fasten their cleats. Mounting their bikes, they ride to Belmont to meet their coach by 6 a.m. Forty miles and two grueling hours later, the members of the rejuvenated Harvard University Cycling Association return to Cambridge to catch some last minute sleep before class...
...ordered on an affliction that, particularly in times of trouble, seems to bedevil every Administration: the unending stream of information from inside the Government to the outside world. Although much of Ronald Reagan's wrath was directed at unauthorized speculation about his economic plans, the latest attempt to fasten loose lips was justified, as under previous Presidents, on grounds of national security...
Still, he could never have imagined such a capacity in himself. Only minutes before his character was tested, he was sitting in the ordinary plane among the ordinary passengers, dutifully listening to the stewardess telling him to fasten his seat belt and saying something about the "no smoking sign." So our man relaxed with the others, some of whom would owe their lives to him. Perhaps he started to read, or to doze, or to regret some harsh remark made in the office that morning. Then suddenly he knew that the trip would not be ordinary. Like every other person...