Word: curious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...curious way, Hart the man seems hidden behind the edifice of his ideas. He sometimes appears to wield his detailed understanding of issues as a kind of personal shield. He admits that Mondale's question probed deeper than policy particulars. "Fritz touched a nerve when he sort of questioned who I was," says Hart from behind the desk of his rather spartan Denver law office. "What he was really saying was, 'Is this guy well-grounded enough to govern this country?' " Hart can answer the question that stymies many other candidates: Why are you running for President? But he still...
...curious and very gentle lover, very gentle with the woman, trembling uncontrollably, and yet at the same time detached, aware, aware of every sound outside...
With his bushy eyebrows, courtly manners and singsong Texas drawl, Jim Wright comes across as a curious mix: part kindly uncle, part snake-oil salesman. It was the second ingredient that gave some Democrats pause about the new House Speaker's delivering the party's response to Ronald Reagan's State of the Union address. But Wright was eager for his moment in the limelight, and the result was a pleasant surprise for most of his colleagues. In many ways, the speech by the 17-term House veteran proved more effective than the slickly produced Democratic responses of past years...
...heard Harvard had tunnels," Kashani says. "I was curious. I thought with the weather being cold, they would be useful." When Kashani found a key to the basement door of Wiggleworth E entry, he discovered that he and his friends could check out the tunnels for themselves...
...been astonishing. At White House meetings, he stays mostly silent. One man who has attended hundreds of small sessions with Bush says he has no idea what the Vice President really thinks. When the aides who prepare him for his weekly one-on-one luncheon with the President grow curious about the fate of their ideas and ask about Reagan's reactions, the Vice President clams up. He is determined that no one discern differences between himself and the President...