Word: rub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...masons say a man will rub enough skin from his hands to make an ankle-length smithy's apron before he masters the art of cutting stone worthy of dressing a cathedral. But in return he is the apple of God's eye, as this stoneworkers' fable illustrates: There was once a mason's wife who enjoyed watching her husband work in the cathedral while she sewed. The bishop knew them both and it became ritual to exchange pleasantries. One day the mason told the bishop his wife was dying and dearly wished to be laid...
Charismatic or not, Bush continued to acquire respect within the White House as a consummate team player. Said one Reagan intimate: "He has enhanced himself. He didn't rub anybody the wrong way." Indeed, Bush has scrupulously avoided filling in for Reagan when to do so might smack of usurpation: for instance, he sits in his own chair-not the President's-at Cabinet meetings. Nonetheless, Bush has remained unusually well apprised of national security details since Reagan's shooting-more current, in fact, than the hospital-bound President...
Within the Kirkland coalition, the phalanxes of the National Wildlife Federation rub elbows with those of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, the Association for the Advancement of Psychology, the Center for Community Change, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. Then, too, there is the Food Research and Action Center, whose troops tramped up to the Hill to protest the proposed food-stamp cuts. FRAC, employing 25 lawyers, technicians and persuaders, gets two-thirds of its million-dollar budget from the Federal Government it is now attacking. Uncle Sam is once again caught beating...
Because of the stigma attached to having dark skin, a black black woman had to do many things to find a place for herself. One possibility was to attach herself to a light-skinned woman, hoping that some of the magic would rub off on her. A second was to make herself sexually available, hoping thereby to attract a mate. Third, she could resign herself to a more chaste life-style-either (for the professional woman) teaching and work in established churches or (for the uneducated woman) domestic work and zealous service in "holy and sanctified" churches...
...crime: racketeering. The verdict: guilty. The sentence? There was the rub. The judge imposed ten years in prison, but federal prosecutors in Rochester wanted the mobster put away for a period closer to the 34-year maximum...