Word: ground
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...politics six years ago and returned to St. Louis, where we wanted to stay. There were very strong pulls not to go through with it." In early June, the former Senator and Episcopal minister called Cheney and withdrew his name. Bush called the next day, but Danforth stood his ground. With Danforth out, the list of contenders grew. Cheney paid a visit to the Capitol Hill office of Tennessee Senator Bill Frist. Vetters were dispatched to the New York law firm of Dewey Ballantine to review Pataki's old records and set up meetings between him and the Texas Governor...
...annoyed by Philadelphia's finest, who are dressed in their finest, who have lapel pins and plastic ear coils and who don't hold a candle to the Secret Service when it comes to politeness, tact and physical fitness. But I love the cops. I mean, they stood their ground this week when zany and stupid protestors tried to provoke them...
...Even if we got the green light to develop from residents tomorrow, it would take two years before we got a shovel in the ground," McCready said...
While Timoney escaped with cuts and bruises, another police officer lay prone on the ground. One of the demonstrators had slammed his head into a bicycle...
...heavyweights have made similar observations on Iraq. In December 1998, for example, U.S. and British bombers struck Iraq for four days as punishment for Baghdad's non-compliance with U.N. arms inspections. And then they simply stopped, having achieved no more than preventing any further arms inspection on the ground in Iraq ever since...