Word: pinning
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...After a while, Leavitt deduced that I was on to the lack of security at the Capitol, or perhaps he was just trying to get rid of me. Either way, he ended the conversation by trying to win me over: he offered me a pin. I loudly refused, not only because journalistic integrity has never come so cheap, but because those things always set off the magnetometers...
...zeal was natural, healthy and necessary. But nearly six months later, the flag seems to be even more visible. It wraps the Administration's budget; it waves at us from the crawls of the 24-hr. news networks; it's being hawked by street vendors in a hundred different pin designs. And if the initial TV coverage of the Olympics is a guide, Old Glory will be stenciled on every second snowdrift in Utah. Meanwhile, corporate America and Madison Avenue have found a new theme: Sept. 11 sells! Hence the ads that drip mawkishness like a melting candle (those Budweiser...
...feet were initially distributed in conjunction with the right to life march in Washington, D.C. Feet are used for walking, and the symbolic nature of the pin is that its bearer is walking in place of the many unborn whose lives are at stake...
...he’s going to win by points, I want to get the pin. If he’s going to get the pin, I definitely want to win by pin,” Rechul said...
...pounds, Jonathan Mankovich led with only 90 seconds remaining and things looked bright for Harvard. Unfortunately, his Pride opponent pulled what Rechul referred to as a “funky move” and caught Mankovich in a defensive pin, securing the win for Hofstra...