Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first-ever confrontation on the same stage between candidates of the two major parties, whetting appetites over the prospect that the candidates would be questioning each other. Did this mean there would be a Tuesday Night Main Event of Robertson vs. Jackson, with Dukakis vs. DuPont, Simon vs. Dole and Gephardt vs. Bush on the undercard...
...Coalition Founder Jesse Jackson, pestering the reverend for his muddled views on the re-flagging of Kuwaiti oil-tankers. Haig was far less screechy than the other right-wingers on the panel who lambasted the I.N.F. treaty and didn't come off as smug as did the more moderate Dole and Bush. But he's already been Secretary of State and has nowhere...
...think that these offices should be closed. The answer is that the pro-Israel lobby, 40 organizations strong, has insisted on the closing of the ofices. The supporters of these maneuvers include Senators Alan Cranston and Edward Kennedy, as well as presidential candidated Jack Kemp, Paul Simon, and Bob Dole...
...pensions and all the other things, would have objected to that difference." But Ronald Reagan set the tone at the outset by announcing that everything except Social Security would be on the table. "When we talk about it in those meetings, we don't say 'Social Security,' " Senator Robert Dole told reporters. "We say 'the unmentionable...
Hoping to provoke a little candor among the six Republican presidential candidates on his television show, William F. Buckley Jr. asked Pierre du Pont why he would be a better choice than Jack Kemp. As du Pont began to answer with practiced evasion, Bob Dole broke in: "You're looking at me. Kemp's over there." "Yeah," replied du Pont evenly, "but the camera's behind you." Television, once the terror of politicians because it revealed character, now merely shows their carefully fashioned synthetic facades...