Word: reared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...empty House floor to rant about the budget before C-SPAN cameras and a handful of junior members. The next morning, he whined to reporters that his stubbornness on the budget was partly inspired by an indignity--the President had forced him to exit Air Force One by the rear door upon returning from the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin. Hours later, when Gingrich appeared for a press conference, he had a prepared text in hand, as if trying to regain his composure...
...during the whole trip" to and from Israel, thwarting even Dole's attempts to get some sleep. And even Dole was finding ways to put some distance between himself and Gingrich on the deplaning question by using statesmanlike humor: "We got in on the front exit, went out the rear exit. Maybe that's just normal rotation...
Like Arafat, Rabin would have entered and left through a rear entrance to the Kennedy School. Lt. Murphy said the measure was intended to prevent the kind of assassination which killed Rabin...
...avoid the shutdown," Gingrich said. "Every president we had ever flown with had us up front. Every president we had every flown with had talked to us at length." To add insult to injury, the House Speaker and Majority Leader were eventually herded out through the plane's rear exit. "You just wonder where is their sense of manners, where is their sense of courtesy," Gingrich fumed. "Was it just a sign of utter incompetence or lack of consideration, or was it a deliberate strategy of insult? I don't know which...
...commission has agreed to allow the partial demolition of the rear wings of the three houses, but the sticking point is the hotel owners' insistence on the total demolition of 24 Garden St. which is situated between the other two structures...