Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Polsby of the University of California, Berkeley. "What we're all there for-the journalists, the political pundits, the public-is to see somebody crack up in flames." Trivial mistakes get blown out of all proportion. Harking back to some celebrated ones from past debates, Kansas Senator Robert Dole, the admitted loser of a TV match against Walter Mondale in 1976 when they were opposing candidates for Vice President, offers a caustic list of no-nos for debaters: "Don't quote your kids. They may be more informed ... Don't perspire. You might not believe...
...Robert Dole (R-Kan.), chair of the powerful Senate Finance Committee and one of the most prominent candidates for Baker's spot. A senator since 1968, Dole gained fame as President Gerald R. Ford's 1976 running mate and hatchet-man; in 1980, he launched an abortive bid of his own for the nation's highest office. Recently dubbed the 14th most influential American in a survey by U.S. News and World Report, Dole has distinguished himself as a Great Compromiser during the current Administration, most notably for his success in reconciling Republicans and Democrats to a key Voting Rights...
...Dole's wit and refreshing candor have won him many friends in the clubby Senate, but his hard-driven style as a legislative manipulator could work against him. His record as a relative moderate--he has parted ways with the Reagan Administration on a number of key issues, including the need for tax increases to reduce the federal deficit--will insure him the support of GOP liberal mavericks, but may make him suspicious in the eyes of the right-wing. More damning still, the liberal Village Voice labelled Dole the "true thinking man's dark horse...
...government began investigating Moon in 1975, shortly after Senator Robert Dole (R-Kansas) wrote his "Many Kansans" letter to Donald Alexander, then Commissioner of the IRS, Dole requested an audit of the Unification Church's finances, and questioned whether the Church was "based on a bona fide religion or mind-control techniques." Dole offered as evidence the claborately phrased hearsay, "Many Kansans have advised me that a major purpose of the organization is the accumulation of wealth and power and not the practice or furtherance of a religion...
...many ironies pervading the case, the government had to ensure that the trial itself dealt only with arcane questions of implied trust relationships, and entirely excluded the issue which was getting all the publicity: religion. Government prosecutors couldn't afford to raise the sorts of questions Bob Dole raised in 1976, because they knew what the answers would...