Word: jibe
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...been waging a noncampaign that will leave him in a strong position if Romney's bid fails. Nelson did not appear conspicuously unhappy when supporters unfurled a Rocky-for-President banner during a G.O.P. meeting in Long Island last week. Nor does Reagan's professed noncandidacy jibe with his heavy speaking schedule in key primary states and his decision to become California's favorite son. "If the Republican Party came beating on my door," he admits, "I wouldn't say, 'Get lost, fellows...
...Jibe, to change course while sailing downwind...
...barely beating Mosbacher's older, slower Vim in the final U.S. trials. That was the year that Mosbacher invented the "tail chasing" start. While the two boats were jockeying for position, Bus kept Vim's bow practically on top of Columbia's transom. Columbia could neither jibe nor tack without fouling Vim. Not until Mosbacher broke off for the starting line could Cunningham swing into action. By then, Vim was precious seconds in the lead...
...reverse the Vietnam policy represented by President Johnson, Dean Rusk, and Walt Rostow, including, if necessary, the President's defeat in the 1968 election. If the goal were simply "How to Remove LBJ in '68," the title supplied the piece by the New Republic, then Mr. Lardner's jibe about the argument being "internally ridiculous" would be correct, for, if that is one's sole goal, the answer is obvious: vote Republican in 1968. However, things aren't that simple...
...seemed to jibe with the recent appearance of anti-Russian slogans on the walls of Sofia, particularly an inscription reading "Za Levski"-a reference to Nationalist Leader Vasil Levski, hanged by Bulgaria's Turkish overlords in 1873. It would seem that Bulgaria, like the rest of Eastern Europe, has been infected with nascent nationalism. As one official tut-tutted last week in explanation of the upheaval: "There are black sheep in every flock...