Word: stroke
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...speech that attracted considerable attention on Capitol Hill, Aspin told the Coalition for a Democratic Majority, "If Democrats want to spend the rest of their careers writing op-ed pieces and giving lectures at universities, then we can continue to stroke our antidefense image. But if we want to make defense policy in the White House and the Pentagon, then we had better stand for something." The party should point to some areas that need increased military spending, Aspin said, and should construct a positive defense policy around issues such as Pentagon reform. "The voters are not attracted to national...
...Woodrow Wilson. In 1919, during a whistle-stop tour of the nation, the 28th President was struck down near Pueblo, Colo., by an embolism that left him half paralyzed and with slurred speech. Back in Washington he recovered, only to suffer a second and irreversible stroke. During the final 17 months of his second term, the U.S. was shakily ruled by a triumvirate consisting of Wilson's second wife Edith, his White House secretary, Joe Tumulty, and his doctor, Cary Grayson. Cabinet meetings petered out slowly. The first one, held in almost complete, shocked silence, as Wilson's mind wandered...
...expensive nowadays to attempt the miraculously detailed subtlety of Pinocchio, which remains the masterpiece of the Disney manner. But the new boys know how to create wonderful transformations in a character's expression with a deft stroke or two, and they have mastered the deliciously parodistic plasticity required by the movements of their ever twisting-turning-tumbling creatures. Their pastoral scenes still glow with the old Disney sweetness, and the ones of foreboding glower with the old relish for the grotesque. They satisfy an older viewer's nostalgic feeling for his childhood's delight while fulfilling the younger crowd...
...only have one,” senior Will Ulrich said. “It’s a young boat, so we’ve been working on getting everyone on the same page. Not everyone has been around as long, so we need to learn how to stroke together...
...just went out there knowing that each stroke is important,” Durkin said. “We didn’t have a particular move to overtake them we just worked to come back into them after they went up a length in the first thousand...