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...earnest for other Democrats, and began inching into the national spotlight again. Just before the Senate adjourned for summer recess, Clinton, a member of the Commerce Committee, led a successful challenge of President Bush?s pick to head the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Defeating the nomination of Mary Sheila Gall was, in effect, Clinton?s first real bid for national press...
...deal with - her pardon-mongering brothers, the gift registry, pocketing a book advance before Senate rules forbidding it kicked in. She went to ground, found her inner workhorse and rose 12 points in the polls. She had her first headline victory last week, defeating Mary Gall, Bush's pick for Consumer Product Safety Commission chair. Speculation that the Clintons would divorce soon after leaving the White House now vies with speculation that Bill might someday be the first First Gentleman. These days they're spending many weekends together...
...wife to "stifle" ? both expressions that were to become Archie's. The family shifted restlessly from New Haven, Conn., where Norman was born, to nearby Hartford, then to Boston and New York City, as the elder Lear pursued a variety of get-rich-quick schemes with a lot of gall but little success. Norman decided to become a pressagent like his uncle Jack, "the only relative on either side of my family who could throw a nephew a quarter when he visited...
...quite to the point—he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key “Wake Up the Grader” phrases—“It is absurd.” What force! What gall! What fun! “Ridiculous,” “hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable,” on the other, will...
...leapt in unison, elated - only to fall to earth and see that Byner had fumbled, and the season was over. Many fathers and sons share triumphant memories, and we too have our share. But we also have the Byner fumble, and though it continues to gall, it is a passionate recollection that binds...