Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Forty young Lakota warriors stand in prayer at the edge of a South Dakota pasture. They bless themselves with sage smoke and thank the spirit of the buffalo that is about to give up its life. A few bison look up from their grazing as a pickup truck churns slowly across the field. Then the crack of a rifle scatters the herd: Rocky Afraid-of-Hawk drops a yearling bull with one clean shot. The teenage warriors, dressed in Fila sneakers and No Fear sweatshirts, scramble in for a closer look as the older men skin the carcass. Later...
...Birmingham, Alabama. The overflow crowd had come to hear the most publicly irrepressible and optimistic G.O.P. politician since Teddy Roosevelt, and for a time, Kemp delivered as promised. His old football stories were laced with lessons: "I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100." His tales recalled the Gipper's golden age: "The world changed because Ronald Reagan had the courage of his convictions." He didn't have to mention what everyone knew: Reagan had borrowed his beliefs from Kemp, the Elmer Gantry of supply-side economics...
...where a fancy one will do, coming across like the class jock who would rather be perceived as the class brain. That's partly why some say Jack Kemp tries too hard. But the point is, he tries, and never stops trying. Through nine terms in Congress from suburban Buffalo, New York, and four years as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Bush Administration, Kemp was that rare, even unique thing in Republican politics, an economic and social conservative who yearned to genuinely make the Republican Party the party of Lincoln by embracing minorities, union workers and immigrants...
Earlier this summer, Kemp saw his political career as being in the twilight. Last month he described himself to a Buffalo newspaper as a "recovering politician." On an overcast afternoon in Kansas last week, Jack Kemp's political recovery was complete...
...described as "a Hail Mary pass." In Kemp, Dole seems to think he's found his quarterback, an energetic, opinionated politician who gets along with voters better than with members of his own party, including Bob Dole and Kemp's former boss, President Bush. A California native and star Buffalo Bills quarterback who served as a congressman from Buffalo for 18 years, Kemp could draw much-needed votes in both key states. Kemp has won the approval of pro-choice Republicans (though he is not), as well as women and minorities with his moderate stands on such social issues...