Word: deeded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Earlier in the term, there had been an uproar over her involvement in the firings at the White House travel office, and later over her possible hand in the gathering of FBI files on Republicans who had worked in the White House. By Election Day 1996, every word and deed of this entirely novel First Lady was shadowed by an entirely novel question: Would she be indicted? Hillary had stood by her husband through Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones, through questions about the draft and whether he inhaled, but to see her own moral standards attacked was something new. "That...
...psychiatric appeaser goes to work on causes: if an act can be explained and is therefore part of behavioral cause and effect (well, Hitler had an unhappy childhood, therefore ...), then it does not deserve the name of evil. Which, the theologian replies, is nonsense: the person who did the deed may be a victim himself or may have merely been having a bad-hair day, as someone remarked in trying to figure out Susan Smith's murder of her children in a South Carolina lake. But the deed is, indelibly, evil...
...parents' child, as were we, much more than we realized. Our parents outlasted the Depression and defeated the armies of fascism. They taught us, by word and deed, that we Americans could do anything if we put our minds to it--that the world would bend to our will, and that it was our duty to exercise that will. We were raised to believe that what we thought mattered, that what we did mattered. What were we trying to do but complete our parents' liberation of the world? What were we trying to build if not that shining city...
...They reveal terrific artists--Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Ginger Rogers--in their early prime, making the music that made them famous. The tunes sound fresh, the interpretations supple. A melody can suddenly improv into Rhapsody in Blue or Chopin's Funeral March or 'Deed I Do. Half a century before rap, Louis Armstrong was already sampling...
...Dole sounded pretty happy when it was all over, chortling like a kid about keeping a secret, doing a good deed, being "back in the game." It certainly was a stunning way to come out of retirement. By lending Newt Gingrich $300,000 at 10% interest to pay off an ethics-committee fine, Dole had preserved Gingrich's job as House Speaker (at least for now), done his party a favor and maybe even saved a marriage along...