Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Calm, relaxed, and even jokey, Clinton stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Tony Blair and issued all the usual denials: "I never asked anyone to do anything but tell the truth"; "This investigation is going on, and you know what the rules for it are." Knowing that wasn't enough, he also threw some meat off the wagon to the baying hounds by alluding again to that right-wing conspiracy: "If someone is leaking unlawfully out of a grand jury proceeding," he added, "that's a different story...
...gift for prose, few White House staff members had good things to say about her last week. "She was awful," says one former official who worked with her in the White House counsel's office. "She was surly; she was sullen; she had a chip on her shoulder and a nasty look on her face." She routinely fought with the other assistants. "We thought she was a Bushie," says one official, "but the real problem is that no one liked her. She was difficult, contentious; the other secretaries just hated...
Tripp's coming of middle age has not been particularly happy, though. "Her life was a struggle," says the Bush official. "She complained of a long commute, a nomadic existence as an Army wife, an ex-husband who was not a true love. She had a chip on her shoulder...
...forget about it. We've got a lot of work to do." Netanyahu agreed readily. The President's initiative in defusing the issue improved the atmosphere of the talks. Says a White House adviser: "Given the distractions around here, the extent to which [the President] bent his shoulder to the wheel was stunning...
Consider: in just a couple of decades, sports have metastasized from one of life's small, innocent pleasures into a kind of cultural kudzu, filling our cable channels with games and game "analysis," our urban centers with stadiums and our brains with forgettable factoids about Terrell Davis' shoulder and Brett Favre's third-down conversions. Once there were two seasons and two sports, with a decent interval between, during which courtships occurred and family members became reacquainted. In that distant era, bars were appropriately morose settings for the serious contemplation of fate and its ironies, not frenetic assemblages of monitors...