1.   Cheney thrived in the political cauldron of Capitol Hill.

2.   Fresh-faced and fresh out of Drury College in Springfield, Mo.,Bowker had unknowingly leaped into a political cauldron.

3.   They also should appreciate the fact that he has stirred the once-sedentary political cauldron to the boiling point.

4.   Col. Kenneth Glueck led his American Marines into a political cauldron where ethnic Albanians had suffered horribly at the hands of the Serbs.