Word: vouch
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...colossal headache: the presidential-election contest that has since brought the eyes of the world into Sauls' courtroom. When reporters started scrambling to profile him, the judge didn't even have a ré sum é to give them. Instead, he handed out a list of friends who could vouch for him. Among his hunting buddies: Dexter Douglass, the courtly Floridian who is one of Gore's lead lawyers. Douglass says he gets no breaks in Sauls' courtroom, and so far that has been true. The legal arguments of the lawyers may be as well tailored as their suits...
...more than a Lego man, the material doesn't seem so bad-you see him caressing his funny little Lego "love wand" instead of (thank goodness) a real one-and the laugh factor doubles. Thus, while this is inappropriate, it doesn't seem unacceptable. I cannot, however, vouch in the same way for the content of "Deep Sympathy," with its tagline "Necrophelia means never having to say you're sorry...
...product of a broken home, I can vouch for the thesis that the harm done by divorce is long lasting. My parents split up when I was six years old. At age 51, I have still not come to terms with it, and I doubt I ever will. It should not be taken for granted, however, that all children of divorce end up divorced themselves. Growing up, I vowed to provide my own children with something I was myself denied--a stable home in which both biological parents are present. Of my life's proudest accomplishments, I rank...
...just what--besides massive size--makes him virtually invincible on the mat? First and foremost, says Mitch Hull, national teams director for U.S. wrestling, "he's maybe inhumanly strong." American wrestler Matt Ghaffari, 38, who has spent his career trying to defeat Karelin, can unhappily vouch for that. In Atlanta the 6-ft. 4-in., 286-lb. Ghaffari wept in frustration on the silver-medal stand after he extended Karelin into overtime, but still lost. "I wrestled my heart and soul out," he says. His performance was so moving that he is now sought as a motivational speaker...
Every time Bradley tries to take a shot in return, he finds Team Gore there to block it. He accused Gore of introducing Willie Horton into politics in 1988, only to find that the Vice President had none other than his old rival Michael Dukakis on hand to vouch that it hadn't been Gore's idea to put the racial tinge on the issue of prison furloughs but the Republicans'. When the former New Jersey Senator raised Gore's 1985 Senate vote against Bradley's antitobacco amendment, the Vice President's campaign called him desperate and made it stick...