Word: bumptiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will doubtless go through life being compared to Fred Astaire, but the link is authentic, not so much stylistically--Glover pounds his feet down, Astaire seemed poised for flight--as in the unique quality of each man's work. Just as it would be impossible to mistake the bumptious Gene Kelly for the elegant Astaire, Glover's silhouette--arms raised but loose, hips and legs stamping out the action--is indelible...
Burger did not plan to do what he did, other than being a lawyer. But he came to adulthood in a time when a young man of energy bumped into opportunity around every corner. His pal Harold E. Stassen, another bumptious Minnesota lawyer, became one of the hottest young Governors in the nation, and Burger was floor manager for Stassen's unsuccessful run for the 1948 Republican presidential nomination. Dwight D. Eisenhower's men noticed Burger and brought him to Washington after Ike's election in 1952. Burger was surprised and somewhat mystified when Richard Nixon plucked...
Tell the President I'll call him back. The bumptious Gingrich likes the sound of that, and in other ways large and small is relishing his new role at the center of things. On Friday evening Gingrich rushed from his first postelection meeting with Representative Richard Gephardt -- the Missouri Democrat and outgoing majority leader -- into his own tiny, crowded office just off the House floor. Prominent just inside the heavy doors were a dozen red roses with a thank-you card signed by the National Right to Life Committee, the nation's most powerful opponent of abortion rights. All around...
...improving IQ is as difficult as they say it is. Why not redouble attempts to bring the lagging populations, white and black, closer to the norm? Murray acknowledges that IQ may be more malleable than he supposes. But he holds that a workable strategy for intervention, especially by the bumptious instrument of government, is simply not there. And his philosophical conservatism predisposes him to look first for solutions that don't involve government at all. So The Bell Curve suggests ending welfare to discourage births among low-IQ poor women, changing immigration laws to favor the capable and rolling back...
...with her performance than with the state's shift toward the G.O.P. Since her election, Texas' most heavily Republican counties have added 120,000 voters to the rolls -- and Richards' 1990 margin of victory was only 100,000. In fact, she might have lost then, had her opponent, bumptious millionaire Clayton Williams, not compared rape to the weather ("If it's inevitable, just relax and enjoy it") and forfeited tens of thousands of votes by otherwise Republican-leaning women...