Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...responsibly help to combat the idea that you must be drunk to have fun, as well as demonstrate the healthy consumption of alcohol. In doing so, they inject some much-needed maturity into the community. Administrators who really cared about the role of alcohol on campus would respect, not hound, responsible drinkers--whatever their...
Sparked by such defensive play, the Crimson would not relinquish its lead. The tandem of Silva, Kohler and McLaughlin continued to hound the Eagles...
...example, when criticizing his opponents' budget proposals, the folksy Texan, astride the stepladder conveniently located behind his lectern, might squeal witty down-home aphorisms such as: "Now, you wouldn't build an outhouse like that, would you?" or "Everybody knows why a hound dog's afraid of fire ants...
When a racehorse appeared, Carter got the owner to sign. When TIME ran a photo of a basset hound, Carter went to a kennel and took a paw print. In 1958, when seven Democratic presidential hopefuls, including Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy and Adlai Stevenson, turned up on the cover together, Carter got to all of them. Harry Truman signed three times, giving Carter good-humored hell for having built his collection on "such a prejudiced, pragmatic and purblind publication as TIME...
...measured by their ability to win votes. Clinton, who has been campaigning ceaselessly since junior high school, approaches politics as an obsessive host, something for this group, something for that set, an endless round of dim sum. Bob Dole, master of the Senate floor, is a tireless vote hound as well. When Dole says of legislation, as he always does, that he wants to "see how it looks" on the Senate floor, he isn't talking about the shape of a specific bill as much as its whip count. He believes in what emerges from the day's horse trading...