Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those supporting the President, 59% are convinced that he is the right man for the job, while 37% have their doubts. Only 45% of Carter's supporters are persuaded that he is the right man, and 52% have reservations. Yet the President cannot take too much comfort from this comparison, since his voters are less likely to show up at the polls. Those classified as "most likely to vote" favor Carter over Ford, 53%-37%. Moreover, 57% of all voters see Carter as the likely winner, while 34% think Ford will take...
...time-honored cliche of the White House press corps, has fallen into disuse because it ill-suits Ford's style and personality. Several weeks ago, after a delegate-wooing expedition to Mississippi, he headed back to Washington on Air Force One. His private lounge exuded more homey comfort than overwhelming power. Ford was in his shirtsleeves, filling and fiddling with his pipe. His olive was high and dry on the ice cubes at the bottom of his martini glass. The bulkheads were decorated with an array of David Kennerly's color photos of the Ford children. All that...
More optimistic Republicans note the dismal shape that the Democrats were in following the defeat of McGovern and take comfort in the cyclical nature of American politics. After a drubbing the G.O.P. tends to rebound, as it did following Barry Goldwater's huge loss in 1964. Observes Teeter: "Every time the Republican Party takes a real shellacking, it bounces back. But it's like a rubber ball. It doesn't bounce as high as it did the time before...
...barley an acre, many are reporting yields as low as 10 bu. Dairy farmers, short of hay and alfalfa, are turning the herds into their parched croplands to find forage. The knowledge that the U.S. has enough farms elsewhere to produce abundant foodstuffs for American consumers does not comfort the farmers. Only rain will help...
pursuing Paul Newman in electric wheelchairs; surprising Burt in his shower; bringing poor comfort to the studio head, now stricken by a heart attack and laid up in the hospital; or sweet-talking - silently, of course - an extravagantly campy sex bomb (Bernadette Peters) into joining the cause. Under scrutiny this premise may not be quite enough. Silent Movie could have used the sort of unifyingly insane notion that made Brooks' The Producers memorable: make a success by mounting the most miserable failure you can find...