Word: slips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apprentice to Arthur Finkelstein, the shadowy Republican consultant who favored scathing attack ads. He worked for Helms in 1984 and again in Helms' successful 1990 race against Charlotte's black mayor, Harvey Gantt, creating the controversial ad in which a pair of white hands are shown crumpling a pink slip as a narrator puts the onus on racial quotas. "The ads were race baiting and untrue," said Mandy Grunwald, Gantt's media adviser. "Alex has a crisp, clear way of going for the jugular." Castellanos believes in finding what he calls "the truest thing you can say about someone...
...moves but the speed with which it does so. In many quakes the crustal movement that leads to shaking takes only seconds to unfold, sending energy exploding in all directions. But recent analysis of data from strain gauges along the San Andreas Fault reveals that four years ago, a slip occurred that took a week to play out. Such slow sliding all but eliminates an earthquake's quaking...
...After the nurse came in and fixed me up, I made a joke that from now on I would always check the footwear of the nurses to make sure they were wearing sneakers. I wouldn't want them to slip and fall on the way to the rescue. But the first time... trying to point with my head where the pop-off was...the feeling of helplessness. I've never been helpless...
...only at Easter and Christmas. After the breakup, Robin lived with her mother and spent vacations from Virginia Polytechnic Institute with her father. When Dole looked back in 1993 on his time with Robin, he mused, "You try to catch up with some of those things in life that slip...
...runner on first has a notion to steal second. The first baseman has a notion to slip behind him. The pitcher has a notion to pick him off, but he delivers to the plate where the batter swings to protect the runner who decides to go now, and the second baseman braces himself to make the tag if only the catcher can rise to the occasion and put a low, hard peg inside...