Word: necks
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...state on her behalf once, and one of Hawkins' campaign commercials shows her conferring with Reagan on the White House portico. Hawkins has played up the "character issue" in her campaign, even trying to gain political capital from painful back surgery last spring that forced her to wear a neck brace. In one of her TV spots, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole extols Hawkins' courage: "It will take more than a back operation to stop her." The candidate is presenting herself as a caring politician, highlighting her work for abused and missing children and the elderly...
...pawn of the Establishment. But he has refrained from criticizing Reagan or bringing up the subject of Senate control. "It wouldn't sell well in Nevada," he explains. Reid even displays an autographed photo of himself and the President on his office wall. Reid and Santini are running virtually neck and neck...
Then he throws a loop around the sorrel colt's neck. The horse runs, then plants his feet and struggles. Ray holds the lariat tight -- not with a "fighting feel," but patiently, until the fear subsides. As soon as the colt moves forward, Ray rewards him by throwing slack in the rope...
...over and over. Now he ropes the colt's back foot, and another fight ensues. When the colt leans away from the rope, his hind leg is suspended in air. "There's a change," Ray says and lets the lariat go loose. Belatedly, we see that the colt's neck and shoulder have relaxed. "I try to make the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard," Ray explains...
When Ray tries to rub the colt's neck and head, the colt strikes. Ray grins. "He can't find anything good about the human yet. But I'll just keep presenting it to him. I'll keep fixing it until he finds...