Word: crisps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that state's nonpartisan primary in September, so many Republicans crossed over to vote for Democrat Booth Gardner, 48, the little-known chief executive of Pierce County, that the bland, cautious Spellman wound up with a mere 27% of the total vote. The latest polls show Gardner, a crisp administrator with a Harvard M.B.A., running 17% ahead of Spellman. The Governor has taken to shrill attacks on his opponent, charging Gardner with being a "shill of labor" who left his county "a shambles...
...Huskies' crisp passing and excellent speed made them Harvard's most formidible opponent to date, and kept the Cantabs from controlling play as they had over the past two weeks...
...Tigers, baseball's most dominant team during the regular season, were heavy favorites in the American League Championship Series and coolly eliminated the Royals on a cool, crisp October night...
Balancing-or perhaps outbalancing-that consideration, though, Ferraro decisively answered one of the hardest questions she had faced as a newcomer to national politics: How would she behave in a crisis? Veteran politicians of both parties gave her high marks for handling that crisis with unruffled calm, crisp authority and low-key humor. "She's tough; she put her head down and stuck with it," said Republican Senate Leader Howard Baker. Tony Coelho, chairman of the House Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, compared Ferraro to the most successful politician in the U.S. today: "She handled it exactly like Ronald Reagan...
...compendium of auto-born humor that he occasionally shares with readers; "LActress," for L.A. actress). But Caen comes up with more than his share of winners. He claims to have coined the word beatnik, and his elegies on the bygone charms of San Francisco are usually models of crisp journalistic prose. He has learned to take himself a little less seriously than he used to. Describing how he will cover the convention, he cracked, "I'll be going to a lot of parties and I hope to pick up what I can, except the check...