Word: charming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rigidly conservative as his Democratic predecessor, six-term Senator James Eastland. In three terms as a Congressman, Cochran ran up a 95% voting approval rating from the American Conservative Union and a zero approval rating from the liberal Americans for Democratic Action. Cochran has a boyish charm and is an easygoing, relaxed campaigner. He has consistently drawn votes from both parties and run up increasingly large winning margins (as high as 78%) in his congressional campaigns. He won last week in a three-way race against Democratic Attorney Maurice Dantin of Columbia and Independent Mayor Charles Evers of Fayette...
House Speaker "Tip" O'Neill surveyed the party's centrifugal forces last week and remarked: "If this were France, the Democratic Party would be five parties." The somewhat chaotic individualism of American politics these days can have its charm, but it is also dangerous. Congress now has all the discipline of a five-year-old's birthday party. Toby Moffett, 34, a Democratic Connecticut Congressman who was not even a member of the party until a couple of weeks before he filed in 1974, remarks with some chagrin: "We get to Washington...
...demonstration featured an original skit called "The Discreet Charm of the Burger Court," written and performed by members of the Law School Guild...
...Charm and Power...
...such modesty merely adds charm to the center of an offensive powerhouse that includes co-captain Julie Brynteson, speedster Ellen Hart and explosive Cat Ferrante. Her humility disarms any jealousy you could have for the player whose scoring potency has made her a media attraction, the Ivy woman athlete of the week in mid-October, and the lucky attacker who'll go down in the record books as having scored both goals in Harvard's historic 2-0 shutout of Brown in the fourth game of the 1978 season...