Word: thickets
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...secret service agent slips as he tries to keep up. Bush's wife Laura stopped following a while ago, but her husband yells out anyway, "Be careful, Bushie." She calls him by the same nickname. "We're going to clear over there this afternoon," he says, pointing to a thicket of spindly cedar. Along the way he tries to stoke the suspense without giving the secret away. Bush wants us to discover whatever it is he's leading us to the way he did. "Wait till you see this," he breathes out. The seam we've been following winds...
...written language but anxious to show he was trying. As anchors at their respective desks champed at their mikes for the single answer, the money shot, the one payoff we'd been waiting for for a month, they discovered it was at the opposite end of a thicket of legalese...
...This was Felix Frankfurter's "political thicket," of course, and Chief Justice Rehnquist, with the majority quill, will no doubt be accused of creating his own "safe harbor" for retirement. He got rid of this mess just the way Bush wanted him to, shrugging his shoulders and declaring that it wasn't going to get any better from here. He made life easy for the half-cocked Florida Republicans, patting them on the back and easing them back into their seats. He also came to the very reasonable conclusion that Florida's election apparatus would not bear...
...considered a shot at the Texas state senate when he was 25 but, after talking to his father, decided against it. By 1978, though, he saw a chance to run for Congress in West Texas, and it was then that he ran headlong into the thicket of being named Bush...
...example, the FAO has been holding exit interviews like the one Morrin attended. These sessions, held throughout May, are mandated by the federal government. During these sessions, FAO officials guided students through a thicket of colored forms detailing what they owe and when...