Word: tar
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...this is only the best known example of a war of words to tar the Republican contenders as overly sympathetic to the "Old South." A civil rights think tank took Bush to task for writing letters on behalf of the respected Museum of the Confederacy and holding a fund-raising ball where guests dressed in 19th century costume. Dealing with periods of history where ideas were espoused that we now see as wrong has always been a difficult problem, but the attacks on Bush are the wrong way to deal with the dubious legacy of the Confederacy...
...Lewinsky looking better than he did going in. It was Graham, the House Judiciary Committee member and former Air Force prosecutor, who introduced McCain at rallies last week with a terrific down-home twang. And it was Graham whom McCain pointed to every time a desperate Bush tried to tar the Senator as a Clintonian liberal...
...race reversal cuts both ways. City's creative team cut most of a scene where a drunk hospital administrator (Garrett Morris) goes to the morgue to take his picture with the nude corpse of an R. and B. singer, fearing that it might tar black men as drunks. "If we were casting Tim Conway, it wouldn't be a racial issue," says executive story editor Dianne Houston...
...from the 1930s is a charming, if mechanically obsolete, relic. On the other hand, a technology developed 70 years ago to establish levels of tar and nicotine in cigarettes is still in use in federal laboratories - and determines the ingredient labels on today's cigarettes. And as a report in this week's issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute contends, that creaky cigarette "smoking machine" may be responsible for the dissemination of serious consumer misinformation. Why do smokers still believe they are "healthier" when they smoke Marlboro Lights as opposed to Reds? Because the Federal Trade Commission...