Word: doled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They started with smiles and Senator Robert Dole saying that he hoped it would be a "fun evening. "They ended with bitter exchanges and Senator Walter Mondale calling his opponent a "hatchet man." The debate last week between the two vice-presidential candidates-the first such session in the nation's history-turned out to be a tart and often engrossing display of political theater, a duel between two evenly matched men whose debating skills had been sharply honed during the wars on Capitol Hill. Both Mondale and Dole sometimes articulated the views of their top bananas more concisely...
...expected, the exchanges in Houston's starkly modern Alley Theater introduced no new themes into the campaign. But the strongly liberal Democrat and the strongly conservative Republican did deal sharply, if too simplistically, with the basic issues of the election. There were even touches of humor as Dole got off some typical one-liners. He was induced to run for the vice presidency, he deadpanned at the start, because the job involved "indoor work and no heavy lifting...
Most impressive and simultaneously shocking though was the Reds pitching staff. As highly regarded as the Mondale-Dole debates before the series began, Cincinnati hurlers stifled the Yankee offense to two runs in every game...
...MIDWEST: Carter is out front in Minnesota, Kentucky, Oklahoma and West Virginia. He barely holds Missouri. Ford has respectable margins in North Dakota, Nebraska and Indiana. He is well ahead back home in Michigan, and hangs on-but just by his fingertips-in Iowa and Bob Dole's Kansas. South Dakota is seen as a tossup. So are the region's three richest electoral prizes: Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin...
MacDougall is delighted that Ford chose Robert Dole. Reason: FORD-DOLE neatly fits most designs. Says MacDougall: "If Ruckelshaus had been the nominee, we would have been dead-in terms of design...