Word: rub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stockman's remarks may have embarassed himself and the president: in that sense, they mark a turning point in the history of an administration. But to the people who have to live with what he's done, Stockman's mea culpas sound as if he's merely trying to rub it in. In that sense, they may well mark a turning point in the way the public perceives not only Ronald Reagan, but politics and politicians as a whole...
There was the rub. Trudeau wanted the British to write into the constitution a charter of rights that the premiers feared would impinge upon their present autonomy, which allows them, for instance, to limit the hiring of people who move into their provinces from other areas. Trudeau also wanted the British to add a provision to the act that would limit the rights of the provinces to block constitutional amendments...
...Linus Pauling popularized this remedy in the 1970 book Vitamin C and the Common Cold, many people have become convinced that big doses of ascorbic acid help ward off or ameliorate colds; controlled experiments, however, have failed "to provide proof of the claim. Some folk remedies out of folklore (rub socks with onions, coat body with Vaseline) are hard to consider with a straight face, and a great many others irresistibly bring to mind Robert Benchley's personal anticold regimen: "Don't breathe through your nose or mouth...
...into the frame of mind where they will laugh and cheer hysterically at the sight of other Harvard students thrusting one another behind draperies, only to stumble on still others. But it undoubtedly can be done. And while none of the group that troops out--forgetting, for laughter, to rub its collective strained neck--will go home and discuss the finer points of drama, few will escape without the four-year-old gleam in the eye that comes from one last swoop on the ferris wheel...
...people-and the party-that he is in command, but it's no more than that." Jaruzelski is also thought to have another motive for using the army: the hope that some of the good will the Polish people feel toward their military (see box) will rub off on his government...