Word: doles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dole said the word frequently, though he was not the first prominent official to use it. A few years ago, George Bush praised the Czech Republic's Vaclav Havel for "living or dying, whatever, for freedom." Nothing that memorable was said last year. The candidates talked about a "bridge" to here and there. The President's most quoted remark concerned his observation of an archaeological find, that it was "a good-looking mummy. I'd like to date that mummy...
...VOTED FOR DOLE...
PHYLLIS MACEY She got some attention this year--apparently a first for the first Mrs. Dole...
...Dole. At one point in his quest for the presidency, the Republican candidate told a crowd that as the head of the Red Cross, wife Elizabeth had seen many natural disasters, "and I'm not including my campaign in that." Ah, but there was a calamity at every turn. There was his stubborn insistence that tobacco was not necessarily addictive. There was the premature release of his concession speech on Election Night. And, of course, there was the symbol of his campaign, the Chico--as in California, not Marx--pratfall. On the very same day that Dole landed...
...week by week. If it does, the public will tune out, as it did in Whitewater. This is not to say that the White House doesn't smell like Gucci Gulch. Nor should it go unpunished if it takes in improper contributions (and let's hold the Republicans or Dole to the same standard). The fascination with the latest White House paper chase only gives Republicans cover for avoiding the larger issue of campaign-finance reform. Just eight Republican Senators voted for it last session. No wonder Limbaugh is telling the media to keep up the good work...