Word: vouching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could barely concentrate on exercise. He sat on a bench in front of his locker, put his head down and kept saying, "I can't believe this. I can't believe this." Says Yochelson: "It was very painful for Chris, because he recognized that he was being forced to vouch for someone who was repugnant in his community...
...141s that were leaving constantly during daylight hours. Stamping of their papers continued all night. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, under pressure from the State Department, had agreed to let the Vietnamese enter--mostly through Guam and the Philippines--if they could find an American to vouch for them. To help Vietnamese women get out, Smith adds, "we just married them right in the lines, sometimes," to American men. Says Smith: "It was a quick thing: 'Do you? I do.'" Then...
Congratulations on a fair and realistic portrait of Cuba and Cubans [Cover Stories, Feb. 20]. As one who has traveled there and listened to Cubans' concerns, I can vouch for your assertion that they feel very misunderstood by Americans. The fact that one virtually never hears regrets expressed there about the revolution reflects the depth of misery suffered during the pre-Castro regimes...
declares Mary L. Naber, a first-year from Salinas, California. She's not alone. As a fellow Californian, I can vouch that the orange goop upon which Harvard Dining Services bestows this deceiving moniker is not a staple of the average Californian diet. But the misnomers don't stop here...
Even as Oliver North, the G.O.P. candidate for Senator from Virginia, continued to hammer away at Democratic incumbent Charles Robb's extramarital indiscretions, voters were reminded of ghosts in North's own closet. North paraded former Iran-contra players Edwin Meese and Elliott Abrams to vouch for his integrity. Meanwhile, Nancy Reagan publicly called North a liar...