Word: hacking
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Hapgood says such a frustrating loss haunts him for weeks. "There's so much subtle tension--sometimes it's hard to hack the pressure," he says...
These considerations were outweighed by apprehension among CIA officers that Bush may also try to use his new job as a steppingstone to the vice presidency. Some CIA officials called him "a pol," "a hack" or "a p.r. man." Said one officer: "It's understandable why the President couldn't pick someone from the profession itself, but did he really have to pick someone who is so much the opposite of a professional...
...stone face himself, who looks like a push-up. The most popular actor in the world, and possibly the worst. We shake our heads at the French for liking him so much, along with Clint Eastwood, and Weudstoc (Woodstock), and the worst type of American AM music. A real hack...
...couple of times. Boccacio first used this trick in the Decameron, upon which Chaucer modeled Canterbury Tales. The idea is to get some people together in a place where they will reveal themselves through some telling story or action. Usually a new perspective breathes life into this old hack's trick. But in Philadelphia, Anyone? the perspective seems almost as old as its technique...
...exist. Now if the President really wants a $395 billion budget, he ought to send it up." Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey dismissed Ford's proposal as "a subtle ploy but not hard for people to figure out: give 'em a tax cut in January and hack the budget after the elections...