Word: ringer
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Mary McCaslin and Jim Ringer -- Passim...
...Marine hopefuls leading questions like, "You haven't smoked marijuana, have you?" Answers, of course, were negative. Some recruiters coach candidates in advance to ensure that they pass aptitude tests, or use bright stand-ins for those who seem sure to fail. Robinette said that one ringer in northern Ohio had taken the test for 15 candidates and was so proficient that he could deliver any score needed...
...Argentina's aristocratic class is symbolized by a phalanx of chorus people who seem to have stepped out of the Ascot Gavotte number of My Fair Lady. The director also cannibalizes his own previous work. Evita's portentous first-act finale (A New Argentina) is a dead ringer for that of Cabaret (Tomorrow Belongs to Me). The show's neo-Brechtian lighting scheme and montage finale also recall that 1966 production...
...taken by Brian Corcoran, a former aide to Democratic Senator Henry Jackson and now a candidate for Congress from Washington State: "Carter is not really a liability, but you don't drop his name all that much. He is not unpopular, but neither is he a bell ringer...
...body, sobbed on her mother's shoulder. At dusk, small groups of workers and relatives gathered solemnly outside the chain-link fence surrounding the piles of rubble at the tower's base. Near the tangled mass of steel stood a faded sign: MAKE SAFETY A BELL-RINGER THIS YEAR...