Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even those few liberal Democrats like me who have argued that the president should resign or else be removed from office will be relieved when this is all over. We are exhausted from arguing with our friends and embarrassed to be associated with the likes of Tom DeLay and Bob Barr, whose hatred of the president changed the focus of this story from the president's lying to the Republicans' own bitter partisanship. It's been a very long year...
...swine, and are urging tougher import restrictions. Meanwhile, some critics believe that a few dominant corporate hog processors, like IBP or Smithfield, have unfairly profited from the farmers' misfortunes. "This isn't a matter of outmoded hog producers falling victim to the invisible hand of the market," says Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa. "Pork in the grocery store costs the same now as six months ago. An anticompetitive pork industry is victimizing farmers and consumers." Still, shoppers may begin to see savings at the butcher's counter in the next few months. Unfortunately, by then, hog farmers...
...temporary transcendence. And the music had been compromised, so stunted that his soul just shut down. Maybe part of his heart died when Gladys passed, or maybe he just lost heart. But his life also started to drift as the music spun out of control. His manager, Colonel Tom Parker, had wrapped him so tight in a skein of interwoven business and publishing deals that he had little creative room to move. "We're caught in a trap," he sings with devastating intensity in Suspicious Minds, one of the great tunes of the later years, sounding like a lifer...
...have gathered further evidence for the view that there are conflicting strains in the public's response to the current and presumably permanent scandal: most Americans deplore what Larry Flynt is doing and, at the same time, hope he comes up with something truly dreadful on Tom DeLay...
...that matter, did Lucianne Goldberg or the American Spectator or the Washington Times, the Rev. Moon's contribution to the free marketplace of ideas, which printed evidence of Colorado Governor Roy Romer's extramarital relationship for reasons that have been lost to history. Nor did Tom DeLay, who now warns Senators not to vote on impeachment until they visit a locked room in the House office building for a glimpse of some juicy stuff that meets his standards of evidence even if it fell short of Kenneth Starr's. (Once dismissed by the snobs as an exterminator from Houston, DeLay...