Word: doled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dole sounded pretty happy when it was all over, chortling like a kid about keeping a secret, doing a good deed, being "back in the game." It certainly was a stunning way to come out of retirement. By lending Newt Gingrich $300,000 at 10% interest to pay off an ethics-committee fine, Dole had preserved Gingrich's job as House Speaker (at least for now), done his party a favor and maybe even saved a marriage along...
...never does anything psychologically simple had been scheming about Newt's problems for months. Dole told his old campaign manager Scott Reed in January that Americans would tune out Washington even more completely if both the President and the Speaker were fending off scandal. Newt should pay the fine, said Dole, and get on with it. The two men worked on Gingrich privately for weeks, but the Speaker kept resisting. Marianne Gingrich was even more hostile: she didn't believe her husband had done anything wrong, and she refused to pony up the couple's savings. The Gingriches are worth...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: One day before a crucial Senate vote on the chemical weapons treaty, Bill Clinton got backing from an unexpected source: Bob Dole. Citing alterations in the treaty language, Dole said "there are now adequate safeguards to protect American interests." Dole's support could provide crucial political cover to Trent Lott and other wavering Senate Republicans, TIME's Jef McAllister notes. "Dole has always been closer to the internationalist wing than to the isolationists that Helms has marshaled against the treaty." While White House officials hoped that Dole's endorsement would give them the needed votes, spokesman Mike McCurry...
...number of photography awards TIME has won this year. At the Missouri School of Journalism's Picture of the Year competition, Bentley took four top awards in the campaign category--which he has won every time since its inception in 1984--for photos taken during Bob Dole's presidential bid. Liss won first place for his feature on community policing and his cover photo and essay on a working mom. Diana Walker received three first-place honors from the White House News Photographers Association for her behind-the-scenes glimpses of the Clinton campaign and her private look...
...last month, Bob Dole stood at the Rainbow Pool on the Washington Mall and, in a most moving address, announced the launch of a $100 million campaign to build a World War II memorial. Right there...