Word: dented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should," said one delegate. Reagan supporters had prepared a three-page list of hot queries, but Ford was ready. One reason: a sympathetic delegate had slipped the White House an advance look at most of the questions. After Ford's successful trip, his chief Southern strategist, Harry Dent, said any attempt to get the delegation to buy the Schweiker candidacy would be "like trying to sell iceboxes to Eskimos...
Terming the Schweiker choice "the political boner of the century," Harry Dent, the President's chief delegate hunter in the South, argued: "Reagan people are supposed to be purists, but this is a very impure act." Reagan's embracing of Schweiker, declared Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde, was like "a farmer selling his last cow to buy a milking machine...
...into a poet of profit and loss. He knows, for example, how to turn a dollar from "the jetsam set," those people who lust for cut-rate, damaged merchandise: "Bang the canned goods, put little holes in the shirttails," he tells the manager of his Railroad Salvage store. "Dent the toasters, nick the toys. Give them train wreck, give them capsize, give them totaled, head-on and what's spilled to the road from the jackknifed...
First comes Sally. "Oh, Mama, it's good to be home," she tells her elderly mother. With her withering limbs and head covered by fine gray stubble, Sally, 46, appears ancient. When she turns to peer out the window, her skull bears the surgical dent that is brain cancer's trophy. "It's just like when you look at a little baby," she says. "Someday that baby will be an old man or an old woman if they live long enough. And so, I have no fear of death." Sally may not, but hers is a Yankee...
...pictures on their campaign flyer feature Udall with Charles Bowser, a black political leader who is opposed to Rizzo and supports Udall. But as Hurtig and Reid approach shoppers at a supermarket, it becomes clear from the response that Udall would need months, rather than days, to make a dent in Philadelphia. Moreover, the Udall apparatus in the city is tiny and contentious...