Word: anointing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was even then the unshakable feeling that Reagan had accomplished what no other President since Andrew Jackson had done: inspire enough affection for himself, and respect for his policies and presence, to anoint his successor. Jackson did it for Martin Van Buren, Reagan for George Bush...
...inconclusive that Golden State voters, whose primaries always come late in the season, would have unusual influence in choosing both nominees. Like many an '88 scenario, that forecast foundered on the reefs of reality. Californians, along with voters in New Jersey, New Mexico and Montana, will anoint rather than select the nominees next week...
This week the Pulitzer Prize Board meets at Columbia University to anoint 1988's winners. The prizes are also given for music, drama, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, history and biography, but it is the 14 journalism awards that will have champagne corks poised in anxious newsrooms. Before the bubbly flows, just one question: Is there a trick to winning? Members of the Pulitzer board insist there is none, but that has not stopped newspapers from playing shamelessly to the judges...
...certain nominee after the 20 state primaries on March 8, which will choose more than 30% of the convention delegates. Super Tuesday seemed perfect for a bandwagon bonanza: the winner would roar out of the South with enough momentum to coast to the nomination. Finally, the party would anoint its standard- bearer early enough and end the intraparty bloodletting soon enough so that he might carry something other than his home state and the District of Columbia come November. No more byzantine delegate arithmetic, no more bitter fights to the California primary, just a front-loaded primary calendar designed...
...secrecy about each participant's vote. Confusion, even chaos, is likely. In years past, there have never been fully accurate tallies of exactly who the Iowa caucus attendees supported. But like compulsive gamblers playing with a 47-card deck, the press and conventional wisdom makers will somehow manage to anoint winners, belittle losers and quickly rejigger the odds for the Feb. 16 New Hampshire primary and beyond. In a year with no cutting issues or commanding front runners, Iowa looms larger than ever as it gets ready to bless one Republican and one Democrat with the elusive...