Word: rubbings
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There is a rub however. Defining beforehand precisely who is or is not a controversial speaker is not always easy. Anti-Israel and pro-Ku Klux Klan speakers are clearly controversial. But do pro-Socialist and pro-Capitalist speakers--say, Paul Sweezey, editor of Monthly Review, and George Gilder, head of Manhattan Institute, respectively--fit the controversial label? Martin Kilson...
...young Democrats will also get to rub elbows on Sunday with representatives form the different '88 presidential campaigns, including staff members working for Gov. Dukakis, Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson...
WHILE THEIR alliance may seem odd, the position both sides rally around is perfectly defensible and not all that new. However, the rub is that theirs is a purely philosophical argument, the direct result of their reflections upon human nature and notions of individuality: What is a woman? they ask. Is she first and foremost an autonomous individual, a member of a sex or a constituent part of a broader community...
...dinner, pour him a glass of mouthwatering, buck-a-six-pack brew and expect to get that partnership you richly deserve. It is similarly unwise to walk into a hardhat bar somewhere in Chelsea, order a Corona and then bitch loudly when you don't get a lemon to rub ever so delicately over the mouth of the bottle. In essence, your brand of beer defines your image...
...Stadler two strokes for innocently "building a stance" with his flat towel and then disqualified him entirely because the scorecard he had signed the day before was now incorrect. Some might say the punishment fit the crime no better than the pants fit the criminal, but when did the rub of the green ever have anything to do with grass stains...