Word: election
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Voters tend to elect Democratic Congressmen to get them goodies and Republican Presidents to protect them from other people's Democratic Congressmen...
...Until the Civil War, the ornate and intimate Old Senate Chamber, its dark wooden desks arranged in semicircles, rang with the spirited oratory of Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. Last week, when the Senate's 53 Republicans gathered in the museum-like room to elect their leader for the next two years, the forensics were apparently no less rousing. Kansan Robert Dole claimed to be thoroughly persuaded by the speech his nominator, John Danforth of Missouri, made on his behalf. "It was so impressive," Dole quipped, "that I ended up voting for myself...
Broad-shouldered, bushy-eyebrowed Julio María Sanguinetti, 48, bounded to the platform in the cavernous assembly hall of Montevideo's Colorado Party headquarters and gave a cheering crowd of election-night supporters the good news. "The verdict of the polls indicates we are the majority," he said. "We will not be an arrogant majority. We will have republican humility." With that pledge, President-elect Sanguinetti marked Uruguay's return to civilian government after eleven years of military rule...
...Captain-elect Wilkinson notched 77 tackles and three sacks as well as leading the team with 24 assists...
...uncertainty should begin to clear up this week. The Republican Senate majority will elect a new leadership Wednesday, so the White House will at least know with whom it will have to negotiate in the upper chamber. The Democrats controlling the House, however, may take a bit longer to select a Budget Committee chairman. In any case, though Congress has the final budgetary say, it will wait for a lead from Reagan - just as his own Administration is now doing. At budget-cutting time, it gets lonely...