Word: doled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...differences between Carter and Ford, while striking, bear only moderate resemblance to the chasm between the vice-presidential nominees, Sen. Robert J. Dole (R.-Kans.) and Sen. Walter F. Mondale (D.-Minn.). As his performance in the televised mid-October debate indicates, Dole offers the American people a return to the black days of Nixon and Agnew, to an era of acerbic, divisive diatribes that alienate the young and disadvantaged. Mondale promises instead to be a powerful champion of social justice. The vice-presidential choice is itself vital enough to determine the choice between the Democratic and Republican tickets...
...Dole was wrong: in its own way, the debate helped to enliven-and even to focus more sharply-the 1976 presidential campaign...
...Unlike Dole, Mondale is at ease with correspondents. After a long day, he sometimes strolls-in his stocking feet-to the back of his jet to chat with the reporters stowed there. Earlier this month, he walked jauntily down the aisle with a copy of a Harris poll stuck ostentatiously in his dark blue vest. "Poll? What poll?" he asked with elaborate innocence, obviously delighted that the voters surveyed by Harris preferred him over Dole, 48% to 36%. Even in the South, where Mondale's liberal record had been expected to be an albatross, he outrated Dole...
...Both Dole and Mondale boned up diligently for last week's debate. The Kansan spent seven or eight hours a day poring over a 1 ½-ft.-high stack of black-bound briefing books. Dole, who was fighting a cold, readily admitted that he was edgy, though once the cameras blinked on, it was he who seemed the more relaxed of the two. "Conservatives get a little nervous before the battle," he cracked. "Liberals never get nervous. They always vote yes." Appearing before a Tennessee audience, Dole downplayed the coming debate. "If you're not otherwise occupied...
...complains that people used to think Mondale was "a little town near Pasadena," said recently that "if Ford is going to talk to us about jobs, inflation and housing, then we ought to have Idi Amin come over here and talk to us about airport security." Republican Robert Dole recalls a Democrat petitioning his audience: "Gentlemen, let me tax your memories." Another leaped to his feet shouting "Why haven't we thought of that before...