Word: solider
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Center Bill Ewing continued his solid inside play in the absence of captain Paul Fisher--sidelined for the season with mononucleosis--this weekend, and shooting guard Mike Beam played a crucial role down the stretch in the victory over Princeton...
...past couple of games, we'vepicked up a pattern of coming out slowly, andcoming alive in the third period," Mleczko said."We were determined to overcome that. So we camealive in the first period, but I think ourchallenge right now is to come out and play threereally solid periods of hockey...
...presidency feels different to us now, less a solid than a liquid, too vast for any one man to poison permanently, yet so fluid it molds to the shape of the vessel it's poured into. For much of this century, particularly from Franklin Roosevelt on, the men wore the office, borrowed its majesty to wage war or make peace. Modern Presidents cannot count on that mystique. Now the office wears the man. In the age of 24-hour news channels, it is the man we recognize and judge, which is why Reagan's power was utterly different from Carter...
Rich Galen, who runs GOPAC, the political-action committee organized by Newt Gingrich, thinks it's best for the G.O.P. to content itself with smaller initiatives like that, at least for a while. After a year of impeachment fever, "the party is just starting to chew solid food again, so it's better to take it in small bites," says Galen. But after Monica, the G.O.P. is divided between hard-liners who cannot abide the thought that Clinton got away and moderates who are worried that the "activist base"--the Christian right and other conservatives who will figure strongly...
...After a solid year of scum--a soiled blue dress, a scheme to buy silence, witness intimidation, and lies, lies, lies--you might think Bill Clinton would be ready to get back to doing his job. But you would be wrong. According to the New York Times, our cigar-abusing, bongo-thumping President plans to celebrate the Senate's highly charitable verdict by launching "an all-out offensive to knock off his foes." It's not enough for this self-absorbed wretch to defile the nation's highest office. Now he's dragging his whole party into the muck...