Word: crutch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fahrenkopf also had harsh words for Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale, saying that Mondale couldn't "leave home without...his labor crutch"--the United Auto Workers, "his black crutch"--the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, or "another crutch"--Rep. Geraldme A. Ferraro (D-N.Y.), his running mate...
...Remember, young man," he told me, as I am sure he had told hundreds of aspiring writers before me, "Writing is an excellent cane--but a very poor crutch...
...Bloom County too often comes dangerously close of the zone between, say. Donesbury and Garfield, where it begins to remind one of Dennis the Menace. Because he has chosen child rather than adult heroes. Breathed sometimes indulges in "aren't they cutisms," which become a bit of a crutch...
There comes a time when such excuses become a crutch, and serve no useful purpose, as they have for Israel. Its neighbors are as divided amongst themselves as they are united in anger against Israel. The fact that Israel has few friends internationally is a result of Israel's obstinacy, not any global anti-Semitism. And the country's youth is no excuse--all of the Middle East in a sense is new, having been cut out of whole cloth after World...
...Looking back it's easy to see how complaints could be made," says Allard, who was a junior when the letter was written. "We just came off a terrible [28-Q] loss to Yale. It's a tremendous crutch when you lose to say that the offense is too complicated...