Word: roped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Backstage on the campaign, there were little fascinations: such as learning that there was a Secret Service agent who placed his hands firmly on the presidential hips and steered the Chief Executive from behind as the President went hand shaking down a rope line, the agent occasionally swatting the President on the right thigh as a jockey would a racehorse. ("It's code," another agent said cryptically when I asked...
When there were no hands left to shake along the rope line, Clinton glad-handed the police and anyone else he could find, almost reeling, staggering backward, to find more people to grasp, like a little boy scraping the last of the ice cream out of a bowl, his spoon clattering on the china. The President even beamed at me and looked as if he wanted to embrace me, until he saw the notebook in my hand--whereupon his eyes jumped away...
Brown wouldn't die as it tied it all up at 10 and thus sent the game into the whirlwind second overtime where Harvard found the end of its rope...
Pick a moment, any moment, to remember: Jones' second home run in Game 1, Torre's heart-to-heart talk with David Cone in Game 3, Steve Avery's 3-2 pitch to Wade Boggs with the bases loaded in the 10th inning of Game 4, the rope by Luis Polonia that froze an entire nation with two outs in the bottom of the ninth of Game 5--and the wall-banging celebration of Paul O'Neill after he caught the ball at the last instant. Best of all, there was the just reward for Torre after 37 years...
...problem is that Dole can't seem to decide how to take Clinton on. "I hear a lot of contrary advice from men and women along the rope lines,'' he conceded last week. One of those women, Carol Higgins of Palos Park, Illinois, pleaded with Dole: "When are you going to put the boxing gloves on" and give President Clinton "what he deserves?" Dole giggled as his fans clapped and whooped...