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Word: charms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ballot boxes in the crowded Ames, Iowa, arena. But when their candidate finally strode onto the podium with the beaming countenance of a man blessed with faith in the righteousness of his path, the campaign workers leaped off their feet in joy. Leaning forward with the mild-mannered charm of a televangelist talking to a camera, yet drawing on the rhythmic cadences of a polished preacher, the Rev. Pat Robertson delivered an ecumenical version of the message that has attracted such a fervent cadre of crusaders to his Republican presidential campaign. "Whether we're rich, whether we're poor -- whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait, Robertson: His Eyes Have Seen the Glory | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...sabotage Arias' proposal. Arias remains hopeful. "I am obliged to be an optimist," he says. "I really hope that the Americans will give us the opportunity until Nov. 7 to show that we have the will to find peace in Central America." Arias will need all his considerable optimism, charm and determination to persuade the White House that a fresh infusion of funds to the contras is a step in the wrong direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America Whose Peace Plan Is It Anyway? | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

Five development projects, including an addition to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, are planned for this Square area. All of them are clustered along Mt. Auburn and Eliot Streets, in an area that even local preservations consider to be short on historic charm...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Developers to Rebuild SW Square | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

Five development projects, including an addition to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, are planned for this Square area. All of them are clustered along Mt. Auburn and Eliot Streets, in an area that even local preservations consider to be short on historic charm...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Developers to Rebuild SW Square | 9/17/1987 | See Source »

...outfits)) to be original and no fat little women hopping around in the same dress"), and his memoir of Camelot is lively. He also offers good gossip, recounting Aly Khan's sexual techniques or a little joke Zsa Zsa Gabor played on a lover. But the book's main charm is the author's portrait of himself as Playboy, Second Class -- a man who had to hustle his own pleasures and did so with gusto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Sep. 7, 1987 | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

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