Romania is set to receive a nearly 20 billion euro ($27 billion) aid
package cobbled together by the International Monetary Fund, World Bank
and the European Union to help it weather the ongoing financial crisis.
MOSUL -- Pfc. Cortez Hamilton of St. Louis smiled blissfully as a 20-year-old beautician from Kyrgyzstan rubbed lotion on his left foot after spending a half-hour scraping off dead skin.
(By Ernesto Londoño, The Washington Post)
I suppose that's the way I got eased into it.
White House Is Taking a More Aggressive Role in State Races
By JEFF ZELENY and ADAM NAGOURNEY
The White House’s intervention in the race for New York governor shows how the Obama administration is taking a more direct role in contests across the country.
State Races, clear the field, ease out
The overt involvement of Mr. Obama’s team in New York, where they have tried to ease Gov. David A. Paterson out of the race, has made clear that this is a White House willing to use its clout to help clear the field for favored Democratic candidates and to direct money and other resources in the way it thinks will most benefit the administration and help preserve the Democrats’ majority in Congress.
ease out
Extract or remove someone or something gradually or gently. For example, He carefully eased the car out of the garage, or We were trying to ease him out of office without a public scandal. [Mid-1900s]
ease (MOVE)
verb [T + adverb or preposition]
to move or to make something move slowly and carefully in a particular direction or into a particular position:
She eased the key into the lock, anxious not to wake anyone.
I eased myself out of the chair.
Pedi-Cure
pedi-
pref.
Foot: pediform (Shaped like a foot.)
[Latin, from pēs, ped-, foot.]
cobble sth together phrasal verb [M]
White House Is Taking a More Aggressive Role in State Races
By JEFF ZELENY and ADAM NAGOURNEY
The White House’s intervention in the race for New York governor shows how the Obama administration is taking a more direct role in contests across the country.
By JEFF ZELENY and ADAM NAGOURNEY
The White House’s intervention in the race for New York governor shows how the Obama administration is taking a more direct role in contests across the country.
State Races, clear the field, ease out
The overt involvement of Mr. Obama’s team in New York, where they have tried to ease Gov. David A. Paterson out of the race, has made clear that this is a White House willing to use its clout to help clear the field for favored Democratic candidates and to direct money and other resources in the way it thinks will most benefit the administration and help preserve the Democrats’ majority in Congress.
Extract or remove someone or something gradually or gently. For example, He carefully eased the car out of the garage, or We were trying to ease him out of office without a public scandal. [Mid-1900s]
to do or make something quickly and not very carefully:
I just had to cobble this meal together from what I had in the fridge.
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