If others had your restraint. From Bill Safire's language column:<p>Not since the departure of Ken Starr ("Starr Turn") and Louis Freeh ("Freeh at Last!") have headline writers had such an opportunity to play on a famous person's name. <p>The Hotline, and then Time magazine, put the name in play with "Frist Among Equals." The St. Petersburg Times offered its "Frist Impressions" and the Knight Ridder Tribune news wire came up with a play on the Clintonian slogan with "Frist Things Frist." Every headline writer in America is now looking for other ways to substitute the senator's name for compounds or phrases that use first.<p>On help that the new majority leader is giving the Bush White House: Frist aid. (When the article is about the work of his deputy, Sen. Mitch McConnell, that would be spelled Frist aide.) <p>On a favorable assessment of his stewardship: Frist classor Frist rate in sharp contrast to an early defeat of favored legislation, Frist down. Severe disapproval of an early decision will be labeled Frist offense. <p>A profile of his wife, Karyn, cannot help but be titled Frist lady.<p>Editorialists supporting a filibuster, and familiar with the Hippocratic oath, will admonish him under the imperative headline Frist, Do No Harm. <p>Of course, if he makes it to the top, decades from now his eulogy will be Frist in war, Frist in peace, Frist in the hearts of his countrymen. (Except that countrymen is now considered sexist. Edit Light-Horse Harry Lee's eulogy of Washington to compatriots.)
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