Word: wallows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that?" says Baker, shifting again. "That's a hog wallow. They love to get down and dirty in it. Beautiful here, isn't it? I bet the contras would love...
...practical application have been emerging. "Change is on the way," he says. "Books like Innumeracy and Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind articulate dissatisfactions present and already known to the teaching community." By so doing, they may greatly reduce the odds that Americans will continue to wallow in innumeracy...
Johnson was stripped of his gold medal. He was sent home to wallow in his shame, an example--and a victim--of the Olympic Committee's tough drug stand...
...surprise; so too the generally laudatory reaction. He carries some campaign liabilities: his age and general lack of zip, as well as a silky style that makes it hard for Middle-Class Mike to depict Silver-Spoon George as a country-club elitist. Bentsen's willingness to wallow in contributions from those with business before his Finance Committee makes it tougher for Dukakis to exploit the Reagan Administration's "sleaze factor...
...Novarro all wooed Garbo on screen. In the '30s and '40s, Hollywood called on Cesar Romero, Gilbert Roland or Ricardo Montalban for Continental elegance and rewarded them with careers as durable as Corinthian leather. Even those two camp goddesses of the '40s, Carmen Miranda and Maria Montez, did not wallow in the spitfire stereotype so much as they exploded it, with wit and pizazz...