Word: wagged
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...apprehension was well founded. A year ago, as she sat in her station wag- on in the driveway of her home in the wealthy South Florida city of Naples, a powerful pipe bomb exploded between the front seats. Margaret Benson, 63, and her adopted son Scott, 21, were killed immediately. Her daughter Carol Lynn, now 42, was seriously injured but escaped from the car moments before a second bomb blast...
Every hundred years, some wag remarked as the Statue of Liberty was undergoing its two-year, $66.3 million restoration, a lady needs a face-lifting. Well, maybe it was too much to expect the refurbished copper statue to shine like a newly minted penny at its rededication on July 4. Even so, why have parts of the statue's left cheek, left neck and torch arm developed what the New York Daily News last week delicately dubbed a skin problem? The dark spots, it turns out, are acid stains, caused by pollutants that began eating away at the statue...
...made its way to the White House is that the dour Georgi Arbatov, the Soviets' top U.S. expert, was playing Reagan in the Kremlin's dry runs for the Geneva confrontation. The thought is so singular that it provoked laughs in the back corridors of the White House. One wag suggested that if that went well, Arbatov could move on to Hollywood and Bedtime for Bonzo...
...sympathy, the tone of the letter and its public release struck some Apple executives as a clear attempt to embarrass them. Said Steve Wozniak, Apple's co-founder who left the company last February to establish his own electronics firm: "Steve can be an insulting and hurtful guy." One wag dubbed Jobs the John McEnroe of business...
...reputation for being faithful and solicitous to his wife Lidiya. Her influence upon him is considerable; she is the one person he listens to attentively. Her advice extends beyond their personal life to government affairs, particularly in the selection of people for top posts at the ministry. A ministry wag once dubbed her "the real chief of the personnel department...