Word: gust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With three national polls showing a distinctRepublican edge in Tuesday's elections, President Clinton hit the road one more time -- racing through Minnesota, Michigan and Delaware -- in an effort to blow a last minute gust into the Democratic party's sagging sails. In an early morning rally in Minneapolis, he exhorted: "Why would we want to give the Congress to people who want to take us back to what almost wrecked us in the 1980s? Say no to them! Say yes to our people!" But the news was grim as polls gauging voter congressional preferences released today all give...
When you're hit with a gust of fresh air from the West...
...Crimson won the coin toss before the game and opted to go with strong gust at its back to start the game. But even though Harvard more than doubled Princeton's time of possession, it was the Tigers who lit up the scoreboard--despite going against the wind...
...best argument still is the closure's potential economic impact. Four other naval facilities in the city are also on the list and closing them all would, supporters claim, wipe out 27% of the area's jobs and 1 of every 3 payroll dollars in the region. In a gust of rhetoric that would make a soap- opera writer blush, Mayor Joe Riley Jr. says the city could begin to die "and the tumbleweeds of broken dreams and shattered lives blow down the street...
Danny Rubin's story is a clever metaphorical fable about moviemaking. Actors endure endless retakes of the same scene, with new improvs, trying to keep it fresh on the umpteenth take. Eventually, Phil knows the action so well, he can literally direct it: "A gust of wind. A dog barks." And finally he is the writer, changing history by anticipating it. But this Chinese-puzzle-box movie has a deeper message inside. It says that most folks' lives are like Phil's on Groundhog Day: a repetition, with the tiniest variations, of ritual pleasures and annoyances. Routine is the metronome...