Word: sling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...California Senate race. Like the incumbent, Senator S.I. Hayakawa, 75, the former talk-show host is pro-choice on abortion. Maureen also has an instinct for the political jugular. As she once declared during her father's presidential drive: "We will certainly be able to sling the mud, to kick below the belt, to trip, to scratch if we have...
...math could illustrate that the tax cut due a $15,000 wage earner is far outdistanced by the cost of lunch for his two children at $1 per day each, for 180 days. Unless the school board, the food service manager and I can learn more imaginative ways to sling hash, "biting the bullet" may end up on the school menus...
...caught a ski on a rock and tumbled, landing on his left elbow and shoulder. In considerable pain, he was flown by helicopter to Bethesda Naval Hospital outside Washington, where an X ray showed that he had broken his left collarbone. Treated with painkillers, and his arm in a sling, the President flew back to Camp David to finish the weekend in less energetic fashion. Still, he planned to go to New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl game on New Year's Day, as the final weeks of his presidency dwindled down...
...demythologized Alaska more obnoxious and squalid than it is majestic and forbidding. Along with the peaks, glaciers, freedom and big bucks, he gives us the alcoholic cabin fever of the Arctic winter, the grimy linoleum floors of numberless joints like the Northern Saloon in Nome where half the boozers sling .357 Magnums as equipment for late night poker, and the glazy-eyed dissolution of the Eskimos who can only watch the white conquest from the alleys while hanging around getting tight and quietly hysterical...
...place of his son, Filartiga appears to have adopted a nation. He speaks of "my people," not as a politician would carelessly sling around the tired buzzword, but as a father who has expanded his household to embrace a country...