Word: inserted
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...writer I know - a very funny man, when uncoerced - resigned abruptly, in the middle of the night, from the staff of TIME the weekly newsmagazine. His reason: An editor had written in the margin of his story, "INSERT SOMETHING FUNNY HERE...
...calf. Bill Clinton, though brilliantly seductive as a communicator, comes as an amateur to the business of memoir-writing. How difficult will Clinton be to handle? I don't know. And who will be handling whom? Gottlieb is smart enough to refrain from writing in the margin, "INSERT SEXUAL NITTY-GRITTY HERE." Gottlieb's problem will be to get the boy from Hope to be honest in more important ways...
...official. Every member of Congress wants special treatment, the official says, and if you deploy the President too often, he wastes his time and loses his power to convert. "You don't get the President involved at the start," says a White House official. "You set the table and insert him at key points in the process to get key things done, to make key calls to certain people [to tell them it's] time to get off the dime, time to hold hands and jump...
...Rose and a Candy Bar" so as not to annoy the show's candy sponsors. John Zacherle's horror-novelty song "Dinner With Drac" was toned down for Clark; a record was then issued with the hard and soft versions. Chuck Berry didn't need prompting to insert, in his "Sweet Little Sixteen," the lines "Well, they'll be rockin' on ?Bandstand,' Philadelphia...
...going in for the same procedure he had in March - a cardiac catheterization, for which doctors insert wires into a vein in his groin and thread them up into his heart. The wires are tipped with electrical sensors that give precise readings on the rhythm of the heart muscles "for the purpose of determining the vice president's risk of developing a persistent, abnormal heart rhythm," said Dr. Jonathan Samuel Reiner in a statement released by the White House...