Word: husking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Oklahoma's bumptious David Boren resides at the other. The round of frantic conferences began among the Finance Committee's Democrats and White House handlers. The White House designated Secretary Bentsen to ride shotgun on Moynihan. But in that meeting Bentsen was little more than a weary husk, hollowed out by frantic European junketing. Besides, there is the underlying suspicion that Bentsen is really more in sympathy with Moynihan than with his Administration. The question remained, to use the words of a powerful lobbyist, "Can the quirky Moynihan put together a coalition?" If he does not, the Senate leadership...
...writing a comic strip simmered in my head for quite some time. I needed the merchandising money. Unfortunately, after this initial burst of misunderstood creative ingenuity, my brain went numb. It was a nightmare: all my creativity had slowly seeped out of me, leaving me a dry, lifeless husk totally incapable of inventive conversation, let alone producing a daily, witty, critically acclaimed, award-winning, ego trip of a comic strip...
...finds his guide, Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges) is in a self-made hell. A New York City talk-show host, Jack told a caller he was among "the bungled and the botched," and the caller promptly gunned down seven people at a yuppie boite. Three years later, a wasted husk in the care of a video-store owner (the ingratiating Mercedes Ruehl), Jack meets the husband of one of those victims, now a daft street creature called Parry (Robin Williams), who leads his fellow homeless in singing "I like New York in June./ How about you?" Parry believes that Jack...
...through a kind of electronic cheesecloth and remove all the ancient evil traces, the reptilian brain, the lashing violence, the tribal hatred, the will to murder? Will the killer be strained out of the soul? Will the inheritance of Cain be left to wither and die with the human husk, the useless flesh...
Despite yearly salaries often exceeding $100,000, 27 superintendents in urban school systems left their jobs in the last year-and-a-half, Husk says. Of this group, more than half were "bought out, forced out or forcefully retired" before their contracts had been fulfilled...