Word: levering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...yesterday's Crimson predicting the imminent demise of the Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club. Far from being "dead" as Williams asserts, we are alive as never before. In an open and honest election, the members of our organization overwhelmingly endorsed myself and my colleagues as the best choice to lever this club out of the rut in which it has been stuck for so long...
This alienation, said Cisneros has "left usnearly bereft of the ability and will to cometogether to use the great lever that can begovernment--which belongs to all of us--to effectchange...
Kevorkian had rigged a canister of carbon monoxide so that Sue, with the good hand, could push a lever to release the deadly gas. According to experts, carbon monoxide causes a headache, sometimes severe, before it kills. Sue made no mention of that but asked after several minutes why it was taking so long. As recorded by Kevorkian in his notes, "Within 2 minutes her breathing deepened, in 4 minutes her complexion became deep red, eyes widened, then she fell unconscious, eyes closed somewhat, breathing stertorous, gradually diminishing in volume and frequency to final deep gasps which diminished in frequency...
...brief spell of spring lever and a little planning have left five Kirkland House juniors sporting just shines on their crowns...
...those who once considered voting for Perot, 38% pulled the lever for Clinton, vs. only 33% who stuck with Perot to the end. Perot won a bigger share of the vote than any other independent candidate in this century, save Teddy Roosevelt, who got 27.4% in 1912. But the maverick Texan got little boost from his final TV blitz. On election night he said he would continue to be "the grain of sand" that irritates an oyster into producing a pearl...