Word: toeing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Aspin, by contrast, is respected for his abiding fascination with defense policy, a strength he will need in the coming budget battles. "He's the only one who can stand toe-to-toe with Nunn and slug it out," said a Pentagon insider. The President relies almost exclusively on Aspin for military advice, though the Secretary's foreign-policy influence has been reduced because of his illness. The Pentagon chief has assembled one of the finest teams of national-security wonks anywhere in government. The problem, however, is the White House has held up his nominations because the roster failed...
...speech at Rutgers University, Clinton marked the 32nd anniversary of the Peace Corps by offering to reform the system of federal financial aid to students, saying he hoped to create a grassroots effort and calling his plan "nothing less than the American way toe change America...
Moyers asks the questions we would probably ask. When a biochemist states that the mind resides throughout the body, his eyebrows go up. "You don't mean that my big toe can feel sad, do you?" Moyers asks. The biochemist does, and what's more, her reasoning makes sense. When a Chinese pharmacist shows Moyers dried scorpions and lizards used to make curative tea, he wants to know how it works but also how it tastes. Answer: really awful...
...booms that pin audiences to their chairs or the huge, stinking vat of rotting cheese with which he perfumed the air of Denmark to remind the citizenry of its Viking roots. When an explosion blew the thumb and three fingers off his right hand, Pauline simply had his big toe grafted where his thumb had been. He can pick things up again, but now he's waiting for medical science and grafting technology to advance to the point where he can replace his jerry-built hand with one taken from a cadaver...
...President-elect did not need the reminder. Dipping his toe into the Iraqi morass the day of the raid, he stumbled. In an interview with the New York Times, he called the raid "the right thing to do," then seemed to open a small window for Saddam: "If you want a different relationship with me, you could begin by upholding the U.N. requirements to change your behavior. I'm not obsessed with the man." The softer rhetoric set off speculation that he might ease U.S. policy toward Baghdad. Clinton angrily denounced what he called a misinterpretation, and the tenor...