Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first four campaign days of 1988 were all George Bush needed to turn the Republican race into a blood sport. Beginning in Washington with an artful response to the taunts of his principal rival, Bob Dole, and climaxing with a brawling, take-me-on-if-you-dare performance at a Des Moines debate, Bush appeared to have whipped his wimp image. But the Vice President may need all the moxie he can muster, since he suddenly found himself bushwhacked over an issue he hoped had been forgotten: his role in the Iran-contra scandal. The fusillade of what...
That's why Bob Dole's recent, forceful questioning of Bush's Iran-contra role is entirely in order. We hope that Bush recognizes the validity of concerns about his knowledge of the fiasco and soon discloses his involvement. It is not a hopeful sign, however, that so far his only concrete response to his chief rival for the Republican nomination has been to suggest--apparently without merit--a conflict of interest associated with the handling of Elizabeth Dole's blind trust and to call for the Kansas senator to release income taxes for the past 10 years. Perhaps Dole...
...being fair to its critics, and has done so lately by giving Gary Hart acres of publicity he couldn't buy. USA Today reports that in the four days after Hart resumed his candidacy, network evening television gave him 39.31 minutes of coverage, while allotting George Bush and Bob Dole six minutes and Michael Dukakis less than three. Of course, as Hart anticipated, most editors trotted out the picture of Donna Rice sitting on Hart's lap, reported the anger and anguish of other Democratic candidates and quoted authorities who said he was unelectable. But once Hart shot up quickly...
Imagine the uproar if a television tape were discovered in which, say, Bob Dole argued that only devout Christians and Jews were entitled to serve in government...
...Dole, of course, has never said anything like that. But his G.O.P. rival Pat Robertson made precisely that inflammatory statement in a 1985 broadcast of his 700 Club TV show. Robertson compounded the offense last fall by piously insisting that he had never harbored such sentiments, defiantly at odds with the constitutional tradition of separating church and state...