Word: shoehorned
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Finley was also remembered for saying his soul was shaped like a shoehorn because of the time he spent getting his students into jobs...
Like the House before it, the Senate has put health-care reform on hold until early September -- a move that will probably shoehorn any effort at legislation this year into the nine-week slot between Labor and Election days. After wearing themselves out on the crime-bill fight, Senators pressured majority leader George Mitchell to scrap his vow to hold up vacations until they crafted a compromise package...
Sure, we can all breathe a little easier now, but it's little consolation to those of us who have to spend a fair part of our week trying to capture our president-elect on paper and shoehorn him into some snappy piece of graphic satire. Especially those of us who hope to making a living doing this in about half a year's time...
...eliminate the absurdities that now infect the system. Some 85% of East Germany's economy is controlled by 220 unwieldy state Kombinate (conglomerates), whose production has been dictated by ill-conceived five-year plans rather than by supply and demand. Heavy- industry manufacturers, for instance, have had to shoehorn consumer goods into their production lines, so that TuR, East Germany's largest producer of electrical transformers, also makes appliances for melting cheese at home...
Gorbachev's heavy-handed battering of the U.S. may have reflected Kremlin irritation at the timing of the American reply to a sweeping Soviet arms- control proposal. Reason: the U.S. response came only two days before the congress convened, forcing Gorbachev to shoehorn a Soviet answer into the most important political address of his career. Gorbachev had offered on Jan. 15 to take a step toward complete nuclear disarmament by the end of the century. The first stage called for the Soviet Union and the U.S. to remove their intermediate-range missiles from Europe within five to eight years...