Word: lip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Five-year-old Zachary Khalil concentrated as hard as he could. He sniffed, bit his lip and, with a determined expression, plastered his cookie with a glob of chocolate icing...
...York, for each of three evenings before the debate, Clinton held a mock session with smooth-talking former Senator George Mitchell, who played Dole. The main advice to Clinton: Don't let Dole drag you off the presidential pedestal, stay on your sunny message and don't bite your lip. Dole rehearsed in the first-floor ballroom of his condominium building, where the campaign set up a stage bathed in TV lights. Aides sat at a table to the side, using flashlights to signal when time was up. Playing Clinton was former actor and good ole boy Tennessee Senator Fred...
...Yamamotosan would be there. I frantically searched the crowd for my savior, but to my utter dismay there was no sign bearing my name, and no indication of my host. I managed to wait for about 30 seconds until panic began to overtake me. Where was he?! My lower lip began to quiver as I realized I had no phone number, no address, and absolute no idea where I was going. I thought about calling home but then realized that a) I didn't know how to call home and b) even if I did, what exactly could my parents...
Instead he proved anew that he was, as elections expert James Thurber of American University in Washington put it, just plain "weird." For most of 1996 he gave lip service to his advisers' words that the election "is not about me." But a day after former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm announced that he would seek the Reform Party's nomination, Perot entered the race and proved that it really was about him. And by accepting $29 million in taxpayer money to fund his general-election campaign--just like any other pol--he undermined his credibility both as an outsider...
...begin with, he once again showed the complete lack of concern for student input that he demonstrated so markedly during such debates last year as randomization and the search for the new dean of public service. His ability to ignore us while paying us lip service is almost admirable, in a perverse sort...