Word: doled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Write a very nice letter to Liddy Dole...
...have defeated the Great Conniver? I think so. A fighter aware of and engaged by the things that bedevil our country, a thinker able to speak with such clarity and simplicity that his words move people to action. That is not what the Republicans had this year in Bob Dole. But considering all he had against him, including himself, the percentage of the vote he won was a kind of triumph, even a kind of tribute to his gritty and stubborn endurance...
...confusing moment. In the campaign of 1996, Bob Dole became almost an irrelevance. The real struggle was between the two versions, almost Manichaean, of Bill Clinton: the President bound for Rushmore, or the incipient felon. Both scenarios are speculations about the future, as all elections are. For the present, the American voter found a way between the two extremes (best hope, worst fear) by acquiescing to what seemed, on balance, the least unsatisfactory of the candidates...
...Dole, after a long career of service, seemed the aging end of his World War II generation, trudging confusedly through the last mission. Clinton, who emerged from the traumatically divided Vietnam generation, embodied both the most idealistic and the most meretricious, greedy and disgraceful qualities of his contemporaries...
...presidential campaign--the 19th TIME has covered--was not your typical race for the White House. There was no overarching issue, no sharp ideological division. The outcome, it seemed, was determined less by what Bill Clinton and Bob Dole said than by how they said it, and when...