Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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POLITICS ABHORS A VACUUM, AND Newt Gingrich last week was feeling its tug. Even before Senate majority leader Bob Dole's uninspired performance during Wednesday's televised forum in New Hampshire for G.O.P. presidential candidates, Gingrich had phoned key Republicans around the country and wondered aloud whether he should launch his own bid for the White House. Already on the previous Saturday, over dinner at the Connecticut home of Henry and Nancy Kissinger, Gingrich had fretted about Dole and launched into a detailed analysis of his own presidential chances...
...mansion whose gates, landscaping and layout Americans have come to know so well. One of the first things the former football star saw was the silver-haired L.A. district attorney Gil Garcetti on TV, announcing that he had no plans to look for other killers. "Garcetti!" Simpson said aloud. "He wouldn't even give me that! Why doesn't that guy give me something--just say he'll look into it?" Simpson then retreated into his bedroom, sitting down on the edge of his huge bed and gazing at the space he hadn't seen in 474 days...
...winged figures and rearing horses ... seemed to him, if not beautiful, then at least not totally disharmonious." Asked by the aged U.S. Senator Donald Cameron whether he is in love with Cameron's pretty young wife Lizzie, with whom he has conducted a heated correspondence, Adams can say nothing aloud, and to himself says only "Yes, and of course...
...Daniel Moynihan, who had engineered his own revision in 1988, demanded a bit of rare institutional solemnity. Since most of his fellow Democrats would be embracing what he considered a historic betrayal of the poor, the Senators should rise in turn from their desks to announce their votes aloud. But Moynihan was one of the few who bothered to stay at his seat during the voting. Democrats milled around. Republican Senators engaged in a round of celebratory backslapping with the 20 or so House members, including Speaker Newt Gingrich, who made a rare visit to the Senate chamber. Moynihan...
...said. "They were the only game in town." So the Democrats have launched their own campaign. Taking their inspiration from the Harry and Louise ads that helped sink Clinton's health-care plan last year, the Democrats have rushed out their own commercials, in which a young couple worry aloud about the plan while the woman's frightened mother listens...