Word: stings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Actually, I did ask the man in the bumblebee suit what he was doing at the Republican National Convention--or, to be more precise, why he was dressed in a bumblebee suit. An environmental statement? Something about what federal prosecutors sometimes call a sting? I did not receive a satisfactory answer...
Having had his fill of being on the news, Christopher Darden is taking his rhetorical skills to series TV. O.J.'s prosecutor will play a preacher in an episode of CBS's inspirational series Touched by an Angel, one of Darden's favorite shows. That should take the sting out of being bumped as a speaker at the G.O.P. convention...
...culture clash. Crown Prince Felipe of Spain, a mucho eligible bachelor, has been hanging out lately with an American lass, Giselle Howard--to the delight of Spanish paparazzi. One of them, Carlos Arriazu, was overeager, and is being charged with illegal wiretapping after he was caught in a sting operation while trying to tap Howard's phone. Arriazu says he didn't know wiretapping was illegal in America...
...greats will always be remembered in their own words," Nixon told Crowley, in obvious and hopeful reference to himself. The book has the immediacy of a daily diary--and the sting of a man brooding over his raw deal, still eager to even old scores. Eisenhower "was very charming and warm socially, but he was a hard-ass...He didn't endorse me in 1960 until he absolutely had to." George Bush's Secretary of State James Baker, who froze Nixon out, was branded "an ass," Bush "a good man, but not strong." After the G.O.P.'s meanspirited 1992 convention...
When the Cambridge Licensing Commission conducted their sting on October 14, chief investigator Andrea Boyer identified Deal's drink as a rum and coke. Deal testified before the ABCC that the beverage contained no alcohol...