Word: wax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President, though, was reluctant to wax nostalgic. Paying a last visit to his campaign headquarters on Capitol Hill, he joked about his work habits with the staffers and volunteers. "I know that some of you were up all night," he said. "And I can only tell you that if I could manage it, I would schedule a Cabinet meeting so that we could all go over and take a nap together." Some 2,000 White House and campaign workers gathered on the South Lawn to bid him farewell. To honor the occasion, most of Reagan's top aides accompanied...
...before the editors of Time, the Wall Street Journal, and National Review wax too eloquent about the significance of Canada's recent election they should ponder this: the September 4th result was undoubtedly the Conservative Party's greatest electoral victory. It may also turn out to be Canadian conservatism's greatest single defeat...
...company is promoting the mats with a $1 million TV ad campaign, and hopes to sell 500,000 by Christmas. Orders are already tumbling in from K mart stores across the country. Tucked inside the packages will be catalogs featuring matching T shirts, bandannas, armbands, knee pads and silicon wax to make spinning easier. A Pennsylvania firm, Apex International, has introduced a six-piece break-dancing kit for $20 that includes a folding mat, padded gloves, a glossary of the lingo and a 30-minute cassette of instructions and music...
...game. "We've played through till 4 a.m.," says Ringleader Holly Thorner, "then started again first thing in the morning. We've played at meals and eaten off the game board. When there was a power failure we played by candlelight. There's still wax on the board...
...last chapter, reigning Miss America Vanessa Williams, a spirited 21 and going for the glory, got caught in some compromising positions. Ten of them, to be exact, to be published in Penthouse, a skin magazine with the luster of a no-wax floor. Officials of the Miss America Pageant, aghast, asked for her resignation. Williams said she would think about it over the weekend...