Word: squeaking
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...Katrina cut the population of New Orleans, a Democratic stronghold, by half. And while many of those voters, mostly African-American, have resettled elsewhere in Louisiana, the dispersal will make it harder for Democrats to cobble together the coalition of black and Cajun votes that have traditionally helped them squeak by in statewide races...
...condition of having only one testis, or only one descended testis”). Thanks, Norm!It’s a mildly amusing and halfway-clever diversion in a book full of them. Did you know that a young Adolf Hitler had his “pip-squeak of an anus kept as immaculate as an opal, small and glistening?” Or that evil people have an unavoidable problem with body odor? Or that bees can explain many of the most difficult aspects of human existence?Somewhere between the endless chapters on the life of bees and the endless...
...Party ran TV ads linking Burns to Abramoff. Then Burns compounded matters by badmouthing wildland firefighters and remaining devoted to Bush and the Iraq war, which hurt his image among women and independents in the Democratic counties. Enough of Montana's independent voters showed their displeasure with Burns to squeak Tester...
...great start, and even that doesn’t guarantee us winning the football game.”The first two dice-rolls against the Bears came in the previous two meetings between the teams. In 2004, the Crimson stormed back from a 31-10 halftime deficit to squeak by Brown 35-34 on its way to a 10-0 championship season, while in 2005, it was a 38-35 double overtime thriller in Harvard’s home opener that was the lone loss for the 9-1 league champs.The differences then were that Brown was playing with running...
...Republican. The image of the Democratic Party that used to come to mind was of a workingman and his wife sitting at the kitchen table worrying about how they were going to pay the bills and voting for Adlai Stevenson because he was going to help them squeak by every month and maybe even afford to send their kids to college...