Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Some law professors think that you are excessively creative, that you are a publicity hound who thinks he's smarter than everybody else...
...former Massachusetts Senator, survivor of lymphoma, preacher of no-nonsense, progrowth, probusiness ("You can't have employment and despise employers -- no goose, no golden eggs"), came away with 33% of the vote. His importance was symbolic as well as substantive: Tsongas possesses a power of glamourlessness, a nerdy, basset-hound anti-image that gives hope to some voters who despair of American politics as glib, empty, pointless -- all sound bites and video bursts. Tsongas' astringent message was that Santa Claus in whatever extravagant forms (Ronald Reagan or the Great Society) is not coming back, and the nation can't afford...
Jared Leake and Eric Carter have grown by leaps and bounds. Leake, who often faces point guards quicker than he, has adjusted and learned to hound his man into making mistakes. Carter has added finesse to his game and become a major threat off the bench...
Berenberg speaks of Smith's "quiet" nature, saying he is "not a publicity hound by any means...
Visitors to the state may feel they have stepped into a foreign country, a land of Mardi Gras, Cajun cooking and the Catahoula hound. The flags of six - countries have flown over this state, where the Napoleonic Code still prevails and French is often the first language in the southwestern Cajun country. Louisiana has been home to trumpeter Louis Armstrong, disgraced televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, demagogue Huey Long and author Walker Percy. The state, which has the nation's widest gap between rich and poor, is a quirky mix of Catholic and Protestant, oil and sugarcane, jazz and Zydeco...