Word: marooning
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...National Press Club--the capitol's branch of Alcoholics Anonymous--knows what he drinks. For Bakshian, it's been a long trip up from copy boy at U.S. News and World Report to "White House insider." He lumbers across the lounge--grey herringbone, white shirt with maroon navy pencil-thin tie, grey flannels--a figure that any Young Republican could look up to. As he talks--fast, clipped tones that emerge from somewhere under his Groucho Marx mustache--Bakshian switches back and forth from cigar to definitive statement to bottle of Bock's Beer...
...dancing you hear the same song 12 times and see 12 couples do the same figures. By the end, the performances have blended into one; costumes differentiate the couples, the British wear bright blue, the Soviets wear white and black, the Americans maroon. The ABC cameras are everywhere; people see this in their living rooms in Salt Lake City, Utah. And here we are watching it in person...
...that he thinks of it as red. To Cleary, every shade from maroon to magenta has one name, and that's crimson...
...moss, a small band of nine-and ten-year-olds scramble among the tombstones with the quick casual grace of children playing games in their own familiar schoolyard. In the midst of death-to reverse the proverb-there is life. And what life. Life in yellow T shirts with maroon-letter messages like "Whereinthehell is Gainesville, Fla.?" Life, chewing sugarless grape gum with great juicy smacks. Life about as far from death as life...
Dole airlifted in 700 red roses from North Carolina, which were passed out by his wife and daughter; and he procured a maroon, hot-air balloon. Bush got not one but two balloons and rode in one himself. He offered rides, but few delegates could summon the courage to accept. When South Dakota Senator Larry Pressler invited delegates on an early morning jog, Bush, taking his wife and boys along, ran farther in a separate jaunt and served breakfast afterward...