The money was a result of extraordinary political wangling, involving the Republican Governor, local Democratic officials and union leaders.

One shop ready to go as a pilot plant before Their Charity finished the wangling for the protection, all on the Q.T.

Ms. Lieberman tests that notion with a book full of stock characters and one that is entirely devoted to school-related wangling, unmitigated by any broader world view.

Li's next of kin, his sister Li Wangling and her husband Zhao Baozhu, rushed to the hospital shortly after they were telephoned at 6 am.

The wall is down but the Communists still hold porous power; the trip is technically illegal and the travelers carry faked passports procured with only a little wangling.

By judicious wangling I was able to secure an extension of leave, so that I could spend some ten days with Plaxy and Sirius, conscientiously returning to my hotel every night.

Li Wangling is apparently being punished for talking to foreign reporters after her brother Li Wangyang staged a hunger strike earlier this year to demand that a prison in which he had been incarcerated pay his medical bills.

After all his wangling to get his detachment ashore, he had been side-tracked to a couple of minor defensive posts in 42, miles behind the Commandos advanced positions, and 42 was secondary to 45 which was up on the northern border where the action was.

Sometimes they go with the house, but not in Pete's case; to him I had been the one stable thing in a changing world ever since he was taken from his mother nine years earlier...I had even managed to keep him near me in the Army and that takes real wangling.