Word: gauntlet
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...Angeles riots, the Asian-American owner keeps a watchful eye on the angry and jobless men loitering outside. The same surly crowd frightens Goldie Bell, 65, a beautician who is black and lives nearby. The vagrants' noisy carousing causes Bell sleepless nights, and every morning she must run a gauntlet past them to get to her car. "I'm just afraid all the time," she says...
Take the case of America's Western forests. During his confirmation hearings, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, the former Arizona Governor, had to run a gauntlet of Western Senators who left the impression that the government has unreasonably locked up vast tracts of forest. All it takes, however, is a flight over the tattered quilt of arbitrary-looking patches that remain of the Pacific Northwest's forests to refute bland assurances of responsible stewardship...
...Sunday, Cincinnati, Ohio: The final gauntlet began in the drizzle outside Riverfront Stadium a few hours before a Bengals game. The previous night, the Clinton camp had lost an almost irreplaceable resource: the candidate's voice. By early Sunday morning Clinton was, as issues director Bruce Reed put it, "the real candidate of the Silent Majority." Taking the stage, he sounded like Marlon Brando in The Godfather and spoke for 21 seconds, a personal record for brevity. "Bad. It's bad," he gasped. "I'm going to let Hillary say something." She delivered a brief speech filled with the pronoun...
...grant an occasional interview to Larry King, tape a few commercials and deliver a handful of speeches to captive audiences. To become President, a candidate has to be willing to sweat, to get out of the TV studios and into the streets, to run the entire, terrible gauntlet that presidential campaigns have become. The system by which Americans choose their Presidents may seem irrational and demeaning, with its emphasis on TV and trivia, but no one has yet figured out how to improve on it in this age of weakened political parties. By trying to short-circuit the process, Perot...
...says. "Where is the community service? Where are the kids going to play on a cold day?" In many ways, Phillips is all that stands between Keri and the mean streets of Chicago. If the school does close, he says, he might drop out rather than run the gauntlet of hostile gangs to attend school in another neighborhood. His mother's insistence and his own determination, though, will probably prevent that drastic step. Another thing that keeps Keri in school is concern for his brothers, five- year-old Quentin, who has a learning disability, and three-year-old Detwone...