Word: hurls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Will the classy literary ghost and the newly homeless ex-Senator stay together? Will Helprin, who avoided the draft in the Vietnam War (he apologized in a Journal column), hurl shame, through his boss, the wounded old soldier, at Clinton's draft dodging? (Helprin apparently did serve a year in the Israeli armed forces, but explaining this to a Chamber of Commerce audience in Keokuk, Iowa, could be complicated.) Dole's people seem to like the idea of more Helprin speeches. Which could leave the Democrats, searching nervously for something to worry about in this ominously optimistic season, a little...
...Dole's game plan sounded too good to be true, and it was. After he clinched the Republican nomination in March, Dole was supposed to return to his promontory on Capitol Hill where, as a modern-day, legislative Zeus, he would hurl bill after bill down Pennsylvania Avenue at a cowering Bill Clinton, who would either have to sign on to the Republican agenda or become a veto-happy obstructionist. By convention time, voters would know who was boss...
...wanted their children to grow up having sat in the front row of Fenway Park, having chased down a wayward foul ball to the cheers of the other fans in the park, having watched baseball on a Thursday afternoon. The only thing missing was a peanut guy who could hurl a bag of nuts across four rows of people with pinpoint accuracy...
...size-fits-all deal," says Ken Kuhl, manager of Arthur Andersen's business-relocation service in Atlanta. "What's outrageous for one community may be perfectly reasonable for another." The trouble comes when politicians get caught up in battles with rival cities and states and frantically hurl money at corporations...
...this world is the master of matter, and Jesus could not defile himself by actually materializing. Indeed, he was spirit and only seemed to die. Gnostic texts have Christ appearing to Peter as the Crucifixion is taking place, joyfully transcending all this world could hurl at him. The Resurrection becomes moot...