Word: waxes
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...Downing Street promptly produced a letter from Nicky Hobbs, the Global Head of External Relations for Madame Tussaud's. It was a request, dated March 3, inviting Brown to "be honored by the Tussaud's team and be amongst the very select group of people that are made into wax figures...
...Most Emailed” list was a story about “celebrating the semicolon” on a subway poster. The piece, beginning with this most banal of leads, develops into a disconcerting death knell for the richer punctuation of yesteryear: prominent lefties like Noam Chomsky wax elegiac and crack wise about grammar, the implicit assumption being that people under seventy see the semi-colon and think, “what’s wrong with that comma...
...answer: Not so much. Huckabee's campaign, though leading in several polls, is mostly strings and sealing wax behind the scenes - a small group of dedicated volunteers who are no match for Romney's massive corporate organization of Scantron call lists. While Romney boasts a boardroom of senior strategists, Huckabee's Iowa campaign director, Eric Woolson, was charged with waking up at 7 a.m. Tuesday to deliver Krispy Kreme donuts to nervous reporters waiting to board the prop planes...
...your story on Kevin Rudd: he's a goose who lives in "Brissie," calls children kids and youngsters littlies. He eats his own ear wax, and now he is on your cover. Let's hope that as Australian Prime Minister he will not be the nerd he has proven to be so far, and that we won't cringe every time he appears in public the way we did with his Labor predecessor, Paul Keating. Martin Bellm, Rowville, Victoria...
...Unfortunately, he was about as gentle as a steel wool thong. The scalding bikini wax that he injudiciously administered on the Harvard community did succeed in galvanizing a large constituency around a common cause, but since that cause was himself it was doomed to be rather short-lived...