Word: roust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Russ Feingold have seen their own soft-money ban gather a majority of 52 votes in the Senate, still eight short of busting the promised filibuster of the GOP?s head moneyman, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. The head?counters say eight votes is still just too much to roust up on an issue that?s near and dear to GOP leaders (who hand out the soft money come reelection time) but somewhat less so to voters. Will this year be different? McCain, of course, has an entire presidential campaign riding on the possibility; expect him to shout it from...
...identified a bin Laden cell operating in Nairobi. The agency believed it was headed by Wadih el Hage, a Lebanese who held American citizenship and who, according to court documents, once served as bin Laden's personal secretary. Washington sent a secret request to Kenyan authorities in Nairobi: roust Wadih el Hage. For several weeks Kenyan police, sometimes accompanied by visiting FBI agents, began paying visits to el Hage's Nairobi home, searching its rooms, confiscating computer disks and darkly warning him that he'd face more hassling if he remained in the country...
...something of a palace coup. The Gang's return is the latest and by far the strongest indication that the star of Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes is eclipsing that of his nominal boss, Leon Panetta. One of Panetta's first acts last summer was to all but roust the consultants from the West Wing. He barred them from appearing on TV or in the Oval Office without his permission, and he conducted a none-too-private search for people to replace them. But Ickes had different ideas. In recent weeks he and his protege, newly appointed White House...
...they see a police car, has no business saying whether Price has got things right. But the book sounds right; it rings true. Cheap wine, the kind you drink on the front steps, is "stoop booze." That's information worth hanging out to hear. The plainclothes-police raiders who roust the drug dealers two or three times a night are "the Fury," from Plymouth Fury, the beat-up patrol car they drive. "Dicky check" -- genital search for drugs, done in the open and intended to humiliate -- is what the Fury imposes on the "clockers," the young black crack sellers...
Indeed, the typical alternative rock fan (never mind the oxymoron) tends to go through bands like nobody's business, ever on the rampage for the novel and always primed to roust a sell-out. Some divide alternative rock fans into two groups--those who have been at this game for years and those who have only just begun to put bands in the same category as kleenex--use them up and throw them away. The latter are accused of posing; the former, of snobbery. Everyone is, of course, up-to-the-minute hip. Novelty obscures quality sometimes...