Word: battler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forced-folksy dropped g's ("You're exercisin' your right; I'm exercisin' mine"). Bush's performance, however, depended on the particular network vantage point. On CBS his counterattack sounded namby-pamby; on ABC, with longer clips of his remarks, he came across more as a feisty battler...
...success has not come without a fight. In the collaborative medium of network TV, Bochco is known as a tough and sometimes abrasive battler for his standards. Colleagues describe him as cool and self-confident, stubborn when dealing with superiors and direct with underlings who do not deliver the goods. "I know I can be difficult," Bochco concedes. "But you can't do work at this level without being demanding of yourself and others...
...background for three years because of [former Harvard goalies Dickie] McEvoy and [Grant] Blair, some pretty good goaltenders," Cleary said, "Look at the figures, and I think John has earned his stripes this year. You don't get to be 18-4 without a good goaltender. He's a battler; he's a fighter...
...recounted by Historian George Marsden in his definitive 1980 study, Fundamentalism and American Culture, many of the conservatives turned into angry militants during the cultural upheavals following World War I. The term Fundamentalist was coined in this period to identify a battler for orthodoxy. Presbyterian Evangelist Billy Sunday typified the new ornery style of combat. The liberal, Sunday fulminated, was a "hog-jowled, weasel-eyed, sponge- columned, jelly-spined, pussyfooting, four-flushing, charlotte-russed Christian." At the 1925 Scopes trial, in which a Tennessee schoolteacher was convicted of expounding evolutionary theory, Fundamentalists were ridiculed by the press and perceived...
...time Zelig was better, society had changed too. America had plunged into the depths of the Depression and needed a hero and they turned to Zelig. After licking his affliction, Zelig became a model of the determined battler who overcame his troubles. "That shows what you can do if you're a total psychotic," he told millions of children in a radio message. He appeared at celebrity bashes, dining with William Randolph Hearst, golfing with Bobby Jones...