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...HACK: The source is England's hackney horse, a creature that was let out for hire; it was usually mistreated, and became dull, broken down and exhausted. The word is particularly adaptable to politics, because political hacks are disciplined by a party whip...
...delegates of either party to their state organizations was under $240 a year; less than 30% gave as much as $500. What really marks the typical delegate is a long record of giving time and energy to the party of his choice. This is what may pin the hack label upon him-though it also clearly demonstrates a continuing concern, whether base or altruistic, that makes him feel far more entitled to shape the political process than his long-indifferent neighbors...
Even if he's sometimes a hack, he's seldom a boob, He knows more about the issues, and has much stronger opinions about them, than the overwhelming majority of ordinary voters. He has seen and heard the candidates in person, even if through a smog of rhetoric. He is worried about the war and the riots and his own role in nominating a President. Inevitably, he values party loyalty and remembers long service. He reads the polls and weighs what he wants against...
Seven Minutes to Hack. Harris lined up the target in the luminous cross hairs of his screen, threw two switches that opened the bomb bay and armed the load of 108 bombs. Over the radio, the impersonal voice of a SAC ground controller announced "seven minutes to 'hack' [bomb release point]." The count droned on until at hack, when Harris punched a black button and 30 tons of high explosives cascaded toward the ground more than 30,000 feet below us. There was no shock, no noise, no sight of explosions. Only the impersonal voice of the controller...
...with his day-old bride, trading my dusty sandals for a home." And "Many Young Men From Now" has the added virtue of relevance, not only to the show but to the original play and to Cleopatra as Shaw conceived her. Drake would do well, however, to drop such hack-work as (from a song called "The Wrong Man"): "The world will call it wrong, but I must disagree: The wrong man's the right man for me." True, Her First Roman is in many ways a rather traditional musical, but it lifts free of cliche often enough...