Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ability to draw new, enthusiastic workers into dreary political scut work was most evident at the meeting in Ames, a fund-raising dinner that featured a straw poll for those who bought $25 tickets and had an Iowa driver's license. The Bush campaign, along with those of Bob Dole and Jack Kemp, went all out to pack the arena with supporters. But even before the first candidate spoke, it was obvious that Robertson's forces had pulled off a coup. Dressed in white T shirts and hats emblazoned with their champion's name, they clearly outnumbered and outcheered their...
...candidate and find him an intelligent, well-intentioned man with pragmatic ideas and lofty ideals. But we don't know his fellow Democratic contenders -- Jim Brown, Buddy Roemer, Butch Baum, Tom Clausen, Speedy Long (and we do not wish to arm-wrestle the incumbent) -- or the lone Republican, Bob Livingston, so we are sticking with Sam, who said, "There are 4 1/2 million people in this state and if I can" -- here he put his palms together and moved them as you would to describe the course of a river -- ". . . well, you get the idea. If you can make people...
There were memorable moments, of course -- usually serious, often sentimental, occasionally silly. One of John Paul's most eloquent sermons was delivered to a glittering gathering of 1,500 executives and entertainers (Charlton Heston, Bob Hope, Loretta Young) in Los Angeles, summoning them to lift the moral tone of their media. "Seeking to satisfy the dreams of millions," he cautioned, "you can become lost in a world of fantasy." In downtown Detroit, he challenged an affluent nation: "You may choose to close in on yourselves, to enjoy the fruits of your own form of progress and to try to forget...
This is the attitude of Bill Toomey, the Olympic decathlon champion of 1968, a former World's Greatest Athlete in that long American line from Jim Thorpe to Bruce Jenner, through Bob Mathias and Rafer Johnson. But "now the decathlon is virtually made in Europe," he says. "I keep hoping there is somebody out there who could at least compete with Daley Thompson." Toomey is not inconsolable though. He knows that track, in particular, has been a missionary sport, and that many foreign stars have American universities in their backgrounds...
...packing hordes at shopping malls, sporting events and even Disney World has inspired a movement to tighten the loophole before it takes effect. "We want to bring Florida into the 1990s, not the 1890s," says State Attorney General Robert Butterworth, who is spearheading the effort. He has asked Governor Bob Martinez to consider an amendment to the bill during a special legislative session this week. But the Governor has decided to keep the gun bill off the agenda, and it is unlikely legislators will vote to change their handiwork during the regular legislative session in November...