Word: winging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first casualty of a fund-raising machine whose very creation he opposed. It was Dick Morris, the consultant turned million-dollar author, who pushed Clinton in 1995 to make his comeback with a centrist, ad-driven strategy that would require truckloads of cash. Ickes, almost alone in the West Wing, fought the scheme. Yet when he lost the argument, Ickes executed it to the letter, keeping fund raisers on schedule in memo after memo written in a tiny, pinched scrawl. Clinton has shooed away both men. But while Morris has begun his comeback, Ickes remains in limbo...
...having come reluctantly to the conclusion that land for peace is the only practical way to deal with the Palestinian "problem," he has deeply offended the very people who put him into office," notes TIME's Bill Stewart. "His approach to military redeployment, seemingly designed to appease the right wing, instead has outraged conservative Israelis who don't want any redeployment...
Chodorow exploded over the blue-line and broke down the left wing. Showcasing a great individual effort, the freshman forward lifted the puck over the extended glove of Cornell goaltender Jason Elliott, evening up the contest...
...teaching English at Nativity Preparatory School in Roxbury, and I can't imagine a better life. All the teachers here are under 27, all educated at Harvard, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst and the like, and everyone is interesting and fun. None of us is trained as a teacher; we wing it, and get our inner-city kids into New England's best high schools. The job is intellectually challenging--I still get to talk about literature every day, but now I get to plug it into real life. For these kids, Jane Pittman is their grandmother, and The Outsiders happens across...
...Maybe it was a particularly inspirational day for left-wing activists," he added...