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...Winfield still shines. At the age of 41, the oldest Blue Jay still slugged over 20 homers (hack that I am, I don't have his 1992 stats in front of me) and provided leadership to a motley crew of mercenaries culled from points south to capture the flag...
...Baker is expected to quickly shape up the White House and campaign staffs, which have piled up "counselors to the President" and "senior strategists" like layers on a compost heap. He is taking his own core staff of four seasoned political operatives from the State Department, and he will hack through tangled lines of authority by working with such trusted, longtime allies as campaign chairman Robert Teeter and Budget Director Richard Darman...
...afternoon I'm all sweated out and parched, but still we see no sign of water -- or of the Pygmies straggling behind us. At one point Fay sees a thick vine and says, "Aha!" He hacks off a section at just the right spot, and pure water spurts into his mouth. I grab his machete and hack away but manage to taste only a few drops...
...members' elitism, of course, is not as odious as Lowell's. This is not the early 20th century, and I'm certainly not the impoverished, socially excluded newspaper hack. We're all students at a top college with a wide array of choices. Still, we have very different ways of looking at the world...
This quote comes not from Bob Veela of This Old House, nor from some Carter administration Department of Energy hack...