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In fact, the DCI's real authority has been directly proportional to his personal closeness to the president, which has waxed and waned over the years, and to others in government, especially the secretary of defense.
A beard consisting solely of the hairs between the lower lip and the chin, often waxed and shaped in an upward curve.
Robert Torricelli waxed eloquent about his memories of the "first hearing of the Senate I ever witnessed"--the 1951 Kefauver hearings on organized crime, which he recalled as a festival of anti-Italian prejudice.
"There was a tragic element to his life story," waxed the New York Times . Cisneros is the second ex-Clinton Cabinet officer to be indicted--following Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy--and would have been the third, according to pundits, if Commerce Secretary Ron Brown hadn't died in a plane crash.
In Idaho and Oregon, Eva Castellano has continued a tradition she learned from Mexico of making coronas (crowns) made of waxed and paper flowers to be worn by the young girl.