Word: penned
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...Pennsylvania. But neither Republican has anything on two-term Representative Peter Blute, who stood at the President's side as he signed a public-housing bill into law. "I was in the Oval Office," the co-chairman of the Massachusetts Dole-Kemp campaign says, "and Clinton handed me a pen...
...marches, the town bigwig at the mike vamping in front of an audience in elephant hats. Then Dole would come out from behind the stage, parting the polyester-blue curtain, and enact the body language of victory--thumb up, quick-flash smile, the arm that doesn't hold the pen punching the air in a go-get-'em arc. The crowd would always stand and applaud. "We love you, Bob!" someone would yell, and the unmuffled sound would echo too well, because the hall was always half empty...
...them his intimates. Even his closest associates admit that they don't feel close; they are at times aware of being pushed away. If you bear Dole's scars, says a Republican Senator who has watched him for 25 years, "you don't let anybody know. You carry a pen. You always wear the dark blue suit and white shirt. You do all these things that say, 'I'm normal. I'm the same as everyone else.' The effect of that hurt is it says, 'Don't get close to me. I have come back from the dead.' You keep...
NORFOLK, Virginia: Nyla, the Virginia Zoo's only hippopotamus, died of a bowel blockage on Sunday after she ate a racquetball tossed into her pen by a visitor. Zookeepers were mystified by Nyla's death until an autopsy of the 4,300-pound hippo showed that she had a 2-inch rubber ball blocking her intestinal passageway. Though authorities knew the hippo was suffering some kind of obstruction, they did not perform surgery, fearing she would die during the procedure. Nyla, 31, had lived at the zoo for more than 20 years after spending her youth as part...
...discovered there was no electricity in the morning because some people had electric alarm clocks," said Carolyn M. Fast '98, who is a teacher for Partners for Empowering Neighborhoods (PEN) and also lives in Winthrop. "We almost all missed teaching but some people had battery alarm clocks...