Word: sauceritis
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Upon returning from France, Thomas Jefferson asked George Washington why the Constitutional Convention had provided for an upper chamber. "Why did you pour milk into your saucer?" asked Washington. "To cool it," said Jefferson. "Just so," replied Washington, "we pour legislation into the senatorial saucer to cool...
...rules it doesn't like by majority vote within 45 days. The message was clear: slow down. "This is a classic example of the pattern we've seen this entire session," says TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty. "The House is the hot cup of coffee, and theSenate is the saucer that cools...
...KNOW A GOVERNMENT program is in trouble when it's less credible than a flying saucer. At a Senate committee hearing last month to reconfirm Shirley Chater as commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Republican Alan Simpson of Wyoming confronted Chater with a poll showing that more people under the age of 35 believe in UFOs than in the prospect that Social Security will pay them benefits upon retirement. Whatever the merits of their judgment on extraterrestrials, on Social Security the new workers have it exactly right. Given enough time, reality bites...
...Testor Corp. of Rockford, Illinois -- the model airplane company that has annoyed the Pentagon by offering accurate kits of secret government planes -- said today it's fashioning an alien flying saucer under study by the military. Look for the Area S4 UFO-model flying saucer, named for the highly secret U.S. military base in the mountains of Nevada, where, Testor claims, a dozen interstellar spacecraft may be stashed...
...seemed more surprised at the outcome than the saucer-eyed Paquin herself. When she reached the podium to receive her Oscar she was literally speechless, gasping for air for half a minute before rattling off a list of people she wished to thank. Faced with an assault of reporters' questions backstage, she giggled and answered, "I wouldn't have a clue...