Word: chews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Says one official who worked under him in the Nixon Administration: "Those generals and admirals will chew him up and spit him out in 15 minutes." That, however, is not the prevailing view; most old hands think Weinberger will make sure that the extra dollars Reagan intends to lavish on the military are spent on muscle rather than frills and fat. Says Helmut Sonnenfeldt, who as an assistant to Henry Kissinger was an Administration colleague of Weinberger's: "I'd expect him to be very jaundiced on Defense spending without limit, to bring an air of realism...
Sokolov must be praised, however, for effectively narrowing his topic. In the end, he has emphasized the biography over the literary analysis, a choice all literary critics and biographers face in their work, and he certainly made the best decision in this case. The rotund Liebling is plenty to chew on without biting off bigger chunks of journalistic history...
...Amour heroes like Tell don't chew, swear, swill redeye or hang around dance halls, and they don't go with girls who do. Horseplay and gunplay are surprisingly infrequent. The Sacketts are courtly coffee drinkers who never draw first and fight only when their bedrock belief in the perfectability of mankind has been violated. They hardly rate...
...rest, especially the Federal Government, that great marble engine of the democracy. Nor are Washingtonians consoled by the fact that the candidates have been merely speaking for the country at large. Lord, how the nation hates Washington. Ask any Texan or Vermonter or whomever, and he will chew your ear off about that godless pile on the Potomac, that lobby-choked mausoleum, that fat, besotted . . . and you can throw in tasteless while you're at it. And dull...
...suddenly started to change their opinions of Manager Green. First Baseman Pete Rose reflected on the change in a team he had once routinely cuffed as a Cincinnati Red: "They just never had any discipline around here, and he brought some. Dallas talks loud and he likes to chew people out. He's done a hell of a job, and he should be named manager of the year...