Word: peeling
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Such objections were shared by a growing number of American lawmakers who seized upon the spy scandal as an opportunity to peel themselves farther away from the Administration's foreign policy and begin sniping at the President. In the Senate, Republican leader Bob Dole declared that the affair "threatens the foundation of our relationship with the new republic of Russia." Adding that the U.S. has "moved perhaps too far, too fast in assuming that changes in Russia have permanently altered the international landscape," he called for the Russian government to condemn its efforts to penetrate U.S. intelligence and, if evidence...
LYLE MENENDEZ, WHOSE RICH KID'S TAN has long since faded from his face, broke his pose as the grieving son to peel a thin smile from his limited supply. It was his response to the judge's announcement of the second deadlocked jury in the case of the two brothers on trial for murdering their parents. Menendez's attorney Jill Lansing later boasted about how she had introduced doubt into a case the prosecution had once hailed as open-and-shut murder in the first degree: "I don't think anybody at the beginning believed the possibility that they...
...Food Czar Michael P. Berry must be stymied by the fact that students just don't want to eat the chicken bones that come their way at least three times a week. And why, dining hall personnel must wonder, are we so reluctant to gobble up our banana peels, orange rinds, and apple cores? Odds are that these items are included in our daily food waste tallies. It's difficult to picture someone separating the grapefruit peel from the half-eaten doughnut...
...Peel and vivisect eggs...
...decided that you had to go beyond offering passive services like shelters and actually reach out. When you peel away the layers, you find that a family is broken up or they've had a nervous breakdown or they have a permanent personality disorder that keeps them from holding a job. It's never as simple as just housing. It's going to require some real skill in outreach...