Word: doled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to be resourceful," says Senator Robert Dole, 46. After last week, none of his colleagues doubts that he is. Seeking to seize the initiative on the peace issue, the Kansas conservative pulled off a legislative coup that left the Democrats dumbfounded. Aware that Senators J. William Fulbright and Charles Mathias were planning to propose the repeal of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, he stole the issue out from under the doves by offering it himself. Fulbright was outraged by the theft and voted against the repeal because the manner in which it was offered was "meaningless." To Dole...
...former Congressman, Dole has not only hung on to the ball, but has also carried it for the Administration ever since he moved up to the Senate last year after seven years in the House. Convinced that the President needed more vocal support within his own party, Dole provided it. He played an active role in the battle for the ABM program last summer and, despite his reservations about the President's choices, went down the line for the White House on the Supreme Court nominations of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell...
...Much of Dole's loyalty to the President dates back to 1964, when Richard Nixon came to Kansas to campaign for him in a hotly contested congressional election. Dole squeaked back into office and credits Nixon with an assist for his narrow victory. But Dole's support for Nixon's Viet Nam policy is political, not personal. "What do you do if you're a Republican and support the President, and you're convinced that he's getting out of Viet Nam?" he asks. His actions in the fight over the Cooper-Church amendment...
...find that his dead grandfather has willed him 85,000 measly acres of Hawaiian soil. Hoxworth promptly heads for French Guiana to steal some pineapples to plant. A lovely Chinese girl (Tina Chen) helps the fruit to flourish, and Hoxworth soon has most of the island on the Dole...
...several hundred dollars. But for the rank and file of the movement, survival in the society they are working to destroy -and the financing of the machinery to effect that destruction-depends upon a curious combination of primitive-tribal Communism, good Samaritanism, soak-the-sucker capitalism, live-on-the-dole socialism and the riding spirit of Robin Hoodism...