"Don't expect _____ to bring you happiness. Be forgiving of yourself and others. Never give up on anyone. . . . Miracles happen every day." (moolah) --from "Suggestions On How To Live A Happy and Rewarding Life"
One of the "100 Awfully Good Examples of Oxymorons":
_______ burn (cold storage) --thoughtco.com
"Trump's campaign manager is a felon, His deputy campaign manger is a felon, His national security advisor is a felon, His foreign policy advisor is a felon, His personal lawyer is a felon, His long-time advisor is a felon. It's not a campaign, it's a ________ enterprise." (unlawful) --"The Lincoln Project" --"Vox," 07/17/20
Trump blatantly promotes the Goya food brand from the Resolute ____ in the Oval Office (writing surface) --"The New York Daily News," 07/16/20
Student to teacher in "Pardon My Planet" cartoon, 07/18/20: "I don't think of you as grading my paper. I think of it as you condemning intellectual ______" (asset)
Science should not stand in the way of schools reopening --White House _____ Secretary Kayleigh McEnany (media) --megaphone.upworthy.com, 07/17/20
Among the "15 Hilarious Nicknames Donald Trump Has Been Called": Captain Chaos, Cadet Bone Spurs, _____
Throat (rhymes with "Deep") --cheatsheet.com, 08/27/19
Begin the campaign in earnst (2 words)
Take responsibility (2 words)
“I don’t see President-Elect Trump as a __________ president. . . . I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected, and they have destroyed the candidacy of Hillary Clinton” (lawful)--John Lewis, civil rights leader, Rep-GA, 01/17, died 07/17/20 --huffpost.com, 07/17/20
Kate Paul FB comment 07/17/20 on hearing RBG's cancer has returned: "This is what _________, leadership, tenacity and patriotism looks like, all rolled up into one hot legal mind" (rectitude, honor)
The WH is resisting billions in aid to states for testing/_______ as well as more billions to the CDC and Pentagon and State Department. Senate Republicans are fighting back (following through) --NYT, quoting people in Senate/WH negotiations, 07/18/20
Tearful-sounding car --puzzles.usatoday.com, 07/18/20
Democratic VP finalist Keisha Lance Bottoms' state (abbrev.)
Nonclerical, lay --lexico.com
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) overrides the cities in his state, including big Atlanta, that had enacted ____ mandates, even as the state experiences a sharp rise in coronavirus cases (face covering) --"The Washington Post," 07/16/20
Having little or no practical relevance, typically because the subject is too uncertain to allow a decision (adjective) --lexico.com
The National Association of ______ Organizations, representing more than 1,000 ______ associations and 241,000 officers endorses Trump for 2020. They had endorsed Obama in 2016. (law enforcement) --foxnews.com, 07/16/20
Article preceding a single noun
One of the "470 Ways Trump Failed To Protect America": On May 10, 2018, his national security adviser John Bolton fired the Government’s entire pandemic response chain of _______ (authority) --rawstory.com, 07/13/20
"True change is within; leave the _______ as it is" (external) --14th Dalai Lama
The Eisenhower Medical Center (Rancho Mirage, CA) puts in an emergency appeal for _____ to FEMA to fight COVID (personnel) --NPR, 07/16/20
A portion of the new $1.7B border wall awarded to the Trump-supporting novice-wall-contractor is eroding into the Rio ______. The Pentagon is investigating the propriety of the contract. (river) --WaPo, 07//15/20
Trump finalizes a rollback of the National Environmental Policy Act--the law in place to combat accelerating climate change and protect natural habitats from drilling and development--in order to speed up approval for federal projects like pipelines, highways and _____ plants (energy-producing) --cnbc.com, 07/15/20
Brink --puzzles.usatoday.com, 07/16/20
Vestige, evidence --lexico.comn
Trump thinks dominating a ____ cycle is traditionally important, but right now he's dominating it with incompetence. His super power has been diversion, but it too has failed him in the coronavirus era (what's happening) --Paul Belaga, Democratic strategist, npr.org, 07/18/20
Electricity flow type (initials)
Vicious or Caesar (first name) --famousbirthdays.com
The Trump Administration orders the redirection of hospital information away from the ___ in the middle of the COVID pandemic (Fauci's org) --cnbc.com, 07/15/20