Word: doled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rival, former Senator Bill Bradley, are sure that gun control is a winning issue. And their best evidence is perhaps the confusion in the enemy ranks. First the majority of Senate Republicans voted against requiring mandatory background checks at gun shows. They then voted for it. Elizabeth Dole applauded herself for her move advocating controls two weeks ago. "These events demonstrate why it's so important to speak from the heart, take consistent stands and then have the courage to follow them through," she said...
President Dole defended her actions in Quincy by repeating (word for word) what she had said during the campaign: the press is, in essence, blaming her for "being organized, disciplined and thinking carefully before I speak." There is indeed no hard evidence that Cabinet meetings are scripted, although the Secretary of Labor only added fuel to the widespread media speculation by saying, "One person's script is another person's extremely detailed agenda." Mrs. Dole's chastising of the Queen of Belgium for ad-libbing in the Oval Office has probably been overplayed...
...Quincy, where President Dole had gone to comfort victims of the Mississippi flood, it is undisputed that Heather May Hamm, 4, whose family's home was lost, had been instructed by White House staff members to say to the President, "We thank you, President Dole, for your love and prayers" and said instead, "I have to make tinkle...
...same, there is no doubt that Heather May was frightened. Apparently, she has since insisted on leaving the room whenever the President's face appears on television, and she has, with no apparent prompting, referred to Mrs. Dole as "one scary lady...
...White House spokesman showed bad judgment in claiming that since there were times during the past Administration when millions of Americans felt they couldn't watch the TV news with their children, reducing that number to only one family in Illinois could be seen as progress. Still, Elizabeth Dole remains enormously popular, and the Democrats are indulging in wishful thinking, not to speak of poor taste, with their constant demands for an investigation of what they persist in calling "Tinklegate...