Word: midlands
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cruel touch worthy of the Bard himself, the crowd celebrated sweet victory when Florida finally seemed to be in the Bush camp--only to be told a little over an hour later, that the man from Midland had not won the Presidency after...
...George W. Bush paid a $150 fine and his license was suspended for 30 days. Because Bush carried an out-of-state driver's license (his address was recorded as Midland, Tex.), the suspension carried weight only in Maine. In other words, Bush could have had someone drive him to the state line, hop in the driver's seat and tool off (legally) into the sunset...
...equally possible, however, that the Man from Midland, the Crown Prince of Kennebunkport, the Smirking Wonder, will actually grab the brass ring come November. At which point my much-beloved classmates will have to invest in some serious grief counseling...
ROUND 5: Bush did a lot better on that tax question and he did fine on the education stuff. But, jeez, he still seems off his game - not the charmer of Midland but the Boston Mangler. He had a nice riff complimenting James Lee Witt, Clinton's head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA. It looked big, gracious. Gore, of course, like a machine calculating that he had to be nice, too, came back and complimented Bush's handling of Texas's fire woes. Then Gore had to take credit for making FEMA a better agency. Gore is just...
...embrace their addiction to the dark mistress, and to vote for the best qualified pushers in town. The election, said Lindsey, can be cast as a choice between "rhetoric and people who know something about the oil business." Meet Mr. Halliburton, who ran the Gulf War, and Mr. Midland, whose father won it. New slogan: Oil. You know you want...