Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.) stopped to talk with the demonstrators. "They're pretty noisy," he said with a smile, before repeating his support of nuclear power...
...slow northeastern twang, he talks of issues and Iowa, occasionally pounding the podium and moving to the climax of his speech. "I'm optimistic about this country," he says. "I know we can turn things around." John Connally can go back to the ranch, Howard Baker and Bob Dole can go back to the Senate, Philip Crane and John Anderson can go back to the House and Ronald Reagan can go back to being Ronald Reagan--but "by gosh," George Bush wants to be president...
...President Carter, Democrat, has acted more like a Republican than a member of the party that nominated him, leaving little room for an attack form a moderate Republican and forcing those who wish to be different to the far Right. That is where you will find Baker, Bush, Crane, Dole and Reagan. John Connally you will soon find sulking at his big Texas ranch...
...agree that the poor should be helped, but who are the poor? Is income a test? Most graduates students are poor by that standard. We want to help alleviate the human sufferings connected with unemployment without inducing people to go casually and habitually "on the dole"--as many do. We want to see to it that the needy have an adequate standard of medical care, but who is to say that the long waiting lines observed in the public clinics of many countries do not perform a quite useful function in restricting the beneficiaries of a free service to people...
...otherwise. Three times Congressmen wanted to impeach him: in 1953, when he temporarily stayed the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for giving the U.S.S.R. atom bomb secrets; in 1966, when the thrice-divorced Douglas, then 67, married Cathleen Heffernan, then 23, and was accused by Kansas Republican Robert Dole of using "bad judgment from a matrimonial standpoint"; and in 1970, when House Minority Leader Gerald Ford accused Douglas of accepting a salary from the Parvin Foundation, which was set up by a man with links to Las Vegas gambling...