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Chiles was all courtliness: "And if I might reply to you in Cracker?" (a slang term for descendants of white Floridian pioneers). "I know how to lead. I know how to sell," he said, launching into an example. "Now," he concluded, "do you understand Cracker?" If Bush wants to hand Chiles his first defeat in 36 years of public life, he may need a few lessons...
...there is an unquantifiable loss. The pastoral joys of baseball, joys that no other sport can match, have dissipated. That final prestrike game at Oakland Coliseum last Thursday night can serve as a parable. A balmy summer night, small children with oversize mitts dreaming of foul balls, peanuts, Cracker Jack and the familiar Take Me Out to the Ball Game played during the seventh-inning stretch. But then it came time for the refrain "It's one! two! three strikes, you're out!" A chorus of boos rose from the stands...
...Cracker-Barrel Wisdom: "I accepted invitations to honor my friends ... and in doing so honored the political traditions of a very important state...
...Cracker-Barrel Wisdom: "I'm the senior advance man for the potential candidates. I go up and look around and report back to everybody who has an interest, and that takes a long time...
...Cracker-Barrel Wisdom: "The folks there say I talk a little funny, but we think a lot alike...