Word: tarred
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...father-in-law's help with strategy, and he became the first Democrat elected governor of Illinois since the 1970s. He also had a bit of luck. His Republican opponent's last name was also Ryan (though Jim Ryan is not related to the disgraced former governor), which helped tar the GOP candidate with the outgoing governor's problems. Even so, Blagojevich won with a relatively narrow 52% of the vote...
Democrat Udall beat former Congressman Bob Schaffer for a vacant seat. The son of longtime Arizona Congressman Mo Udall, who mentored John McCain, he benefited from his 2002 House vote against the Iraq invasion and from his green cred, which allowed him to tar his opponent...
...little attention. Who would distinguish him from among the fishmongers, tinkers, tailors, beadles, gentlemen, and dogs? Quickly, he made for one of the city’s more disreputable neighborhoods, where he entered a brothel.Lamps flickered weakly in the smoke-filled room. The floor was covered in sawdust, spit, tar, and drink. The Stable Boy’s eyes were some time in adjusting to the gloom. But, yes, there he was. It was hard to make him out in the tangle of fleshy limbs that occupied the loveseat in the far corner, but Oliver J. Swindleton had kept...
...largest crowd for any youth athletics event anywhere in the world. "The high school competition is fierce," says Beckford, who adds that while Jamaica's training facilities might not be First World - Fraser is part of an elite group that practices on a run-down track of grass and tar - its coaches are top flight and its athletes often share a working-class bond. Though Bolt is known for his fun-loving personal style - showcased in his controversial showboating celebration in the final strides of 100 meters victory - he grew up amidst the hardscrabble rural life of Jamaica's bauxite...
...things off, the ''eternal flame'' representing the country's independence was stolen. The symbolism was all too perfect. In Mexico of late, almost everything that could go wrong has gone wrong. A devastating earthquake last September killed perhaps 20,000 and left tens of thousands in tents and tar-paper shacks around a capital that is already the world's largest metropolis. American officials appearing before a U.S. Senate subcommittee last month publicly condemned Mexican officials for corruption and complicity in drug smuggling. The recent decline in the price of oil, the country's major export, stripped in a single...