Word: askers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Television journalism demands presence. The first and loudest question is apt to net presidential attention and response. That is the gold. The second, more muted question is apt to be ignored and forgotten, and the asker is apt to feel his stardom and celestial salary threatened. Network White House correspondents can now come close to a million a year. A startled Lyndon Johnson once grumped, "My God, do you realize they pay some of those telly- vision reporters $60,000 a year?" Mere peanuts today...
...mostly irritating to women because they can suffer to a maximum degree from the assumption that courtship is unilateral--i.e., that a man's attraction to a woman is the determining factor in mating, and that a man's affections should be automatically requited, as though it were an asker's market, so to speak. The nagging (sometimes haunting) persistence with which some men chase after women may be flattering in the immediate sense, but ultimately it reveals an insensitivity which can move a discerning female to the point of exasperation or even rage. A modest individual may not perceive...
...Harvard's favor, sight end Ranger Asker, man, yet to each a pass this year, will play is place of injured veteran Mike Lilley...