Word: rakings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...telephone his mother at almost midnight to tell her of his primary victory, and when he learned that she had gone to sleep, he remarked, "She ought to be out raising money." He still cherished hopes for a last-minute comeback in the June 3 primaries, which will rake in 428 delegates from California, Ohio, New Jersey and six other states. Said he: "We have 48 hours for euphoria." In less than 48 hours the euphoria was gone, for instead of emphasizing Bush's Michigan victory, the TV networks and the press naturally put their main emphasis...
Freshman Brendan Meagher's wizardry with the clamp and rake hold on the face-off allowed the Crimson to take control so swiftly...
...well over 100. The heaviest confrontation took place at the national university, where four leftist organizations have their headquarters. The soldiers did not invade the sprawling campus, which is off limits to government forces, but ultra-rightists did slip onto the campus at night to plant small bombs and rake buildings with machine-gun fire...
...hindsight, the glories of kings are apt to depend on the available talent. All the last Shah of Iran could rake up by way of a court artist was Andy Warhol. Four hundred years before, his predecessors were more fortunate. The first three-quarters of the 16th century in the courts of Persia formed one of the supreme periods in the history of art: a Middle Eastern equivalent, perhaps, of Florence between 1450 and 1500, or 16th century Venice, or Paris between 1880 and 1930. It was mainly in Tabriz, the capital of the Safavid dynasty, under the patronage...