Word: squinting
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...years old and my parents went to bed two hours ago. I hunch over my dimly lit desk and squint as I pull tiny gun turrets from the sprues of a plastic-parts tree. My room smells of Testor's model glue. I will eventually get so delirious from inhaling the fumes and struggling to assemble this 1/700-scale model of the aircraft carrier Akagi that I will pass out at my desk...
...Thursday night, as McCain-Feingold began to squint at the sunlight of victory, Trent Lott announced that Bush's 2001 budget - and the 10 years of tax cuts and spending curbs planted therein - had exactly half the Senate on its side...
...climate surrounding him but also the new and diverse artistic trends that proliferated during this time. In the last painting of the exhibit, "The Stables," we can see how Marc was influenced by the emerging Cubist movement. With its fragmented planes and kaleidoscopic shards of color, the viewer must squint hard to pick out the horses from the surrounding stables. The effect, once again, is a remarkable merging of subject and background into one unified consciousness...
...help it...he was born with a silver foot in his mouth." The old man had spent his life trying to shake the Greenwich out of his cowboy boots, but W. had already immunized himself. He was a real Texan, and he had the squint to prove it. Bush won with 53% of the vote...
...tolerate evil in your party in the name of party unity?" he asked rhetorically. This is often the way McCain talks. He divides the world between good and evil, and when he is talking about someone he truly reviles, like his Senate foe Mitch McConnell, you can see him squint and grow cold with contempt. McCain's rift with Robertson is nowhere near that intense, but it was a kind of divine justice that reporters last week took him at his word...