Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attempt to pack the Supreme Court, entered the presidential race himself. With the Nazi threat to Europe looming larger in the summer of 1940, Roosevelt engineered his own renomination and shunted Garner aside in favor of Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, a former Republican but a loyal New Dealer...
...near midnight, and Richard Price was stranded, notebook in hand, in the lobby of a bleak housing project with a surly crowd massing outside. Price had followed a cop who was chasing a drug dealer into the building, only to have them vanish up one of three stairways before he could see where they went. When an elderly woman appeared, Price desperately bluffed being a cop and demanded, "Where'd my partner go?" She could only stammer and stare. Finally the real officer returned, winded and empty-handed, and escorted the shaken writer safely through the crowd...
...like I was in church," recalls Sarver. "Suddenly I was aware that he was talking about me." Kinsella was standing before men who were struggling to survive. "Every year do you just keep taking your corn check and turning it over to the implement dealer?" Kinsella asked. Sarver was born again. On a bus home from Kinsella's school he began to figure how he would convert to no-till farming field by field. He did not have enough money to phase in the new methods so he went cold turkey, sold his seven-bottom plow and the larger...
...many elements of Perot's biography have become a standardized recitation: the son of a Texas horse trader (yes, literally) and cotton dealer, Ross learned Norman Rockwell values at home in Texarkana and as an enthusiastic Boy Scout. An Annapolis graduate, he lost his zeal for the Navy because its bureaucracy was stifling, and he tried to get out early. He became a top salesman for IBM, but the company cut his commissions so that he would not earn more than his managers; worse, when he fulfilled his annual quota by Jan. 19, 1962, he was forced to sit idly...
...vivid writing and rich delivery detail life on the streets with his trademark realism and humor, but the sometimes tragic consequences of that life are also laid out. On New Jack Hustler, which was nominated for a 1992 Grammy, he sketches the dilemma of a dope dealer...