Word: swords
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...President to free himself of his own personal concerns and become totally obsessed with the public interest. It's been a test. But I've tried to do that." In a very real sense, says adviser Paul Begala, the judge's decision is "both a shield and a sword." Clinton will now lay out in a series of speeches things still to be done, missions to be accomplished, and challenge Congress to work with him. Fix tobacco, fix Social Security and Medicare, address education, find common ground on an array of foreign policy challenges; in short, remind Americans what...
...Huron Street resident reports that between Dec. 12, 1997, and Mar. 4, 1998, a man known to her has been threatening her and has left a plastic sword outside her door numerous times...
Eldredge's ill fortune made all the difference for Candeloro, who skated after him in Saturday's lineup to the theme from The Three Musketeers. Skating's flashiest showman, Candeloro, who was laid up with an ankle injury last year, played the swashbuckler with abandon, complete with pretend sword fights. The crowd at the White Ring roared in appreciation. His jumps were high and upright, as they generally are, but his execution was messy...
Just four days earlier, all over the island, faithful citizens had scattered roasted soybeans, in the annual Setsubun ceremony, crying, "Devils go out! Happiness come in!" Now a sumo wrestler whose Japanese name is an ancient word for dawn, attended by a sword-bearer and a dew sweeper, ritually purified the ground on a chilly silver morning. In something of the same spirit, International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch reminded the world (not least Baghdad and Washington) that the "Olympic truce" calls for an end to formal warfare during the competition...
...Cohen spent Wednesday with a safer crowd on board the U.S.S. Washington, telling the crew they were "the steel in the sword of freedom." Next stop for the defense secretary is Russia, where he hopes to convince Yeltsin of the need for military backup -- and find out what all that talk of World War III was about. Russia?s own bad-boy superstar touches down in Baghdad Wednesday -- none other than ultranationalist parliamentarian Vladimir Zhirinovsky, with a planeload of humanitarian goods in tow. So much for the tour guide. Whether any of these road trips actually amount to anything...