Word: flushes
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...Western alliance holds no brief for the Albanian separatists, but their provocation of Belgrade could paint NATO into a nasty corner. The spectacle of refugees fleeing as Serb armor descends on their villages to flush out the guerrillas would be an uncomfortable flashback to last year's ethnic cleansing. And yet the only way to prevent that may be to move more forcefully against the Albanian separatists who'd fought alongside the West last time around, which could provoke a dangerous showdown between NATO and the former KLA throughout Kosovo. Even if NATO and Belgrade find a way of resolving...
Truman introduced the first television set to the White House, a harbinger of the presence of TV cameras and 24-hour cable journalists, who constantly haunt the grounds today. But the White House was always an experimental ground for new, in particular domestic, technology. Jefferson had two flush toilets; Andrew Jackson got running water and the first shower; Martin Van Buren brought in central heating; and Polk did away with candles and oil and lighted his chandeliers with gas. An early form of air conditioning was improvised for the dying James A. Garfield in the summer of 1881. Rutherford...
Richard Gephardt used to hate the House of Representatives. It was disorganized, ineffective, boring. Even if you spent weeks whipping members into voting your way, the President could flush your work with a simple veto. And anyway, Gephardt wanted to be President. His mom Loreen has always said the Lord could open doors for him, maybe even the one to the Oval Office. But if God has a bigger plan for Dick Gephardt, he might want to unveil it now, before the minority leader returns to what could be the least effective, most disorganized chamber ever...
...After the first flush of Rush, when he quickly built an audience of 15 million and earned bundles for himself and his stations, radio execs scrambled to put ditto-mouths on the air. Then, like most pop-cultural fashions, this one started to pale. Maybe the talk was too hot (listeners can't stay angry forever). Or political issues lost some urgency in a time when the economy was robust and, for most Americans, the rest of the globe ceased to exist (Bosnia, Belfast, world hunger... yawn). On radio, the sports-talk format took hold; so, late at night...
...Tifton, Ga. (pop. 15,000), no one was turning cartwheels, flush with pride. Any day now, a new claim will go up, and when it does, the whole town will party...