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In the same piece, he traces savvy to Portuguese, which might be correct, but Mencken's American Language derives it from the Spanish sabe . Professor Kaye's nuance word is, at a guess, a suggestion from a word-processor's spelling checker which was derailed by nonce word .
Other appointments are never proposed and political campaigns are never launched (in addition to those that are famously derailed, like Gary Hart's) because of the threat that some sexual misadventure will become front-page news.
(It's probably safe to assume that Lewinsky herself has turned down the $2 million that Bob Guccione offered her to pose for Penthouse , according to the New York Post .) Even though it was the Star , back in 1992, that almost derailed Bill Clinton's candidacy with its revelation of his affair with Gennifer Flowers ("He introduced me to things I've never done before, like oral sex"), none of the tabs came up with new women or other bombshells this time.
The cynical spin: Now that the peace process is back on track, terrorists are staging bomb attacks in Israel to make sure it's derailed again.
The deal was almost derailed at sunrise yesterday, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened not to sign the accord unless the U.S. released Jonathon Pollard, a well-known spy for Israel.