Word: whip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Scenario Two: You see the day's Harvard Dining Services menu in The Crimson, and you've already started feeling ill. But funds are low, and you lack the necessary hot pot to whip up a quick Store 24 packet of ramen noodles. What...
Twice before, in the ethics scandals that had toppled first a Speaker and then his majority whip, the fall of others had lifted Gephardt closer to the top of an institution that he had once seen only as a springboard to the White House. With Foley's demise, Gephardt became the highest-ranking Democrat to survive the G.O.P. onslaught. Now he had far more than his own image to retool. "This was destined to happen," Gephardt told his distraught staff the next morning. "We just have to get to work...
Fein and Schneider, who whip out pictures of their husbands within seconds of meeting a reporter, preached the Rules to friends for years before deciding to write them down. Their thesis is a simple one, familiar to evolutionary scientists (and most women with mothers of a certain age): men are hunters who thrill to the chase. In recent years, the authors claim, women have made the game too easy. "Feminism," explains Schneider, "has not changed...
...election pitch for voters: "No U-turn. Stay on the right track." Clinton is on a four-day, five-state campaign before arriving in Chicago to accept the Democratic nomination. The trip, which will take him through West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana, is designed to whip up excitement for a convention that promises few surprises. Each day the President will unveil a proposed second-term initiative to show he is a do-something leader. Monday's serving: a proposal to ban the purchase of handguns by people convicted of domestic violence. Tuesday Clinton will focus on literacy; Wednesday...
Which is not to say he hadn't learned from Europe. His paintings of children sometimes reach for a rough kind of classical energy. The frieze-line of kids running parallel to the picture plane in Snap the Whip, 1872, brings to mind the dancing putti on Donatello's Cantoria in Florence. He had a knack for inserting distant echoes of the classical into the forms of common life, and doing it so subtly that you're scarcely aware of them at first. Homer went to London in 1881 and then settled in the village of Cullercoats on the coast...