Word: ems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tone he was able to attain, by adopting Truman's give-'em-hell style. Perspiration pouring from his face, his voice hoarse, his eyes coldly angry, Carter gave a shouting stump speech unlike almost any he has delivered before, in content as well as manner. It was a headlong assault on his rival, Ronald Reagan, depicting him as a dweller in "a world of tinsel and make-believe" who would "launch an all-out nuclear arms race" and start "an attack on everything that we've done in the achievement of social justice and decency in the last 50 years...
...their economic and social progress, are threatening to stay away from the polls. While most union leaders swung into line last week behind Carter, blue-collar workers packed Serb Hall in Milwaukee last March to greet Candidate Reagan and cheer his attacks on Big Government with shouts of "Give 'em hell, Ronnie...
...Dockie Shipp Weems' School of Expression in Nashville, rose up before the 1956 Democratic Convention and demonstrated a dying art. His keynote address that night beside the Chicago stock yards was a symphony of rhetorical excess, a masterpiece of alliteration and allusion, an epic of the smite-'em style of oratorical Americana...
...likely to be, "Hey, did you hear Julius Caesar's in our class?" or, "Hey, I just saw a piece of graffiti saying `Napoleon Bonaparte '84.'" Don't bother memorizing your SAT score; just tell anyone rude enough to ask that you got straight 800s. That'll show 'em...
...when they first were admitted to college a decade ago, the Indian was dropped in favor of the now neutral nickname, the Big Green. After a committee was formed to investigate the students' complaints, it was decided that the school war cries such as "Wah hooh wah" and "Scalp 'em" were offensive; the college's board of trustees declared that the Indian symbol was "inconsistent with the present institutional and academic objectives of the college...