Word: hitching
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...scene, having decided as long ago as last July that this ceremony, if it ever happened, would be enhanced by the presence of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and King Hussein of Jordan. Further hand-holding from the White House became necessary when Rabin and Arafat balked over an unresolved hitch minutes before the document was due to be signed, forcing Clinton to closet himself with both leaders in his private dining room and urge them to settle their differences. But in the end the script itself, which Arafat hailed as "the peace of the brave," was enough to steal...
...tracks opposite Golden Age leading men like Humphrey Bogart and John Garfield. When the director of Not Wanted (1949) collapsed from a heart attack, co-producer Lupino took the helm, thereby backing into a directing career that peaked with her popular portrait of a murderer, 1953's The Hitch-Hiker...
...West Coast, from Southern California up to Vancouver, British Columbia, would make fine fire-ant habitat as well. And while the moisture-loving insects can't spread westward through arid reaches of West Texas on their own, they don't have to. Fire ants have been known to hitch rides on truckloads of produce, nursery stock and even industrial chemicals. According to Richard Patterson, a U.S. Department of Agriculture entomologist based at the University of Florida, infestations of fire ants have been found in Arizona, New Mexico, California, Oregon and Washington...
McVeigh left active duty on Dec. 31, 1991, and for the next six months served with the New York National Guard. According to an Army official, McVeigh then left the military four years into his eight-year hitch, writing a letter to his commander claiming that his civilian job required his presence. "But the letter was real vague-it didn't say just what this new job was," the official says. Though he worked off and on as a security guard, both near his hometown of Pendleton, New York, and in Arizona, Terry Nichols has said the two also worked...
...Vegas. Not only does he controls who enters and who leaves, and all they do while they stay there. We never see anyone come or go who is not driven in by Destiny or transported out by his pool. Even Vidivici, the record producer, must hitch a ride, because he has no car. When a relationship starts or ends or succeeds, it is always because Destiny has allowed or caused it to happen. These ideas are intriguing, but, like Las Vegas itself, the script that contains them is all promise, all show and no substance...