Word: wet
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...post-vote news conference, Cindy McCain's eyes were wet. The two weeks of free-for-all Senate debate that her husband had warned would be no "day at the beach" had turned out to be a rather gratifying display of old-time democracy - studded with orations, marked by backroom compromise and infused for the participants with the very real drama of self-interest. These politicians weren't just rewriting law, they were performing surgery on their own success, changing the system that got them where they are today. This was a bill that truly hit them where they live...
...looking only for eminent professors," he says. "There are some famous people who couldn't teach their way out of a wet paper...
...team wearing surgical masks and gloves to clean it out. Her sweet mother is too pliant to complain, her father too stubborn and sick to think straight. Yet to Gallagher, he is still the fearless man who arrived in steerage, took jobs selling bananas (eating nothing but), delivering wet laundry in tenements before running his own garage. His only child finds that she can't tell her 90-year-old father (who made the world, after all) what...
...theory that energy is the essence of matter: "All things change to fire,/and fire exhausted/falls back into things." The metaphor of Heraclitean fire posits an absolutely unstable world, in constant flux, consuming and creating, the alternation and reconciliation of day and night, waking and sleeping, life and death, wet and dry, good and evil. "What was cold soon warms,/and warmth soon cools./So moisture dries,/and dry things drown." And "The earth is melted/into the sea/by that same reckoning/whereby the sea/ sinks into the earth...
...this before (the "bottom" talk's been circulating for at least 1000 points on the NASDAQ by now), the end of the carnage does look to be near. A day as bad as Monday can be good news in itself - they call it "capitulation," when the trading floor is wet with tears - and some analysts hold that it's a must before any turnaround rally can really take hold...