Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poll showing Clinton's job approval at an all-time high, 70%. The markets were happy too: the Dow jumped 150 points. The weather in Washington was baffled, raining and shining and raining again through air that defied you to breath it. On "Monica beach," the 50-yd. stretch of White House gravel where the TV reporters do their stand-ups, 35 bright umbrellas sprouted like mushrooms, and the pressroom was packed despite a complete absence of news. Outside the White House, a man was arrested after he cut his throat with a screwdriver in front of the mansion, shouting...
White House officials later announced that Hillary had "learned" over the weekend, which naturally raised the question of what she had been thinking for the past seven months. Denial is a wonderful thing; it can stretch to contain an awful lot of evidence that looks hostile. A friend said her free fall had to do with the fact that in many ways, the Clintons' marriage has gone so well since they arrived at the White House six years ago. Some marriages would blister under such hot lights, but theirs flourished, partly because Bill was under what amounted to house arrest...
...pants; safari-esque tops that Bartlett calls "ranger" shirts; jackets and trousers made of sailcloth, waxed cotton or suede; and colors that range from "cement" and "sand" to "citrus." Bartlett offers his customers a chance to dress dangerously but not ludicrously (well, except maybe for the hot pink cashmere stretch jacket paired with hot pink leather pants...
...congressional fact-finding mission. Tomorrow, Newt Gingrich has his own summer of deliverance as he starts a float trip down the Hanford Reach, the last non-tidal free-flowing stretch of the Columbia River in the U.S., as a precursor to Hill debate on whether to keep it that...
...primary concern was to protect the existing stock of housing in this stretch of Mass. Ave. and in the abutting neighborhoods," said Marilyn Z. Wellons, co-author of the Anderson Petition...