Word: gab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Talk is cheap, which may be the simplest explanation for this unexpected glut of gab. Cable television and inexpensive satellite hookups provide the perfect forum for sparring candidates to receive free media exposure. The possibility of wide-open races also contributes to the outbreak of political logorrhea. When a candidate is running behind "Undecided" in the polls, a debate gaffe holds little risk. Small wonder that the strongest resistance to an all-talk campaign comes from the handlers of Bush, the candidate with the most to lose. Campaign Manager Lee Atwater complains, "The thing is just getting out of hand...
...Prime Minister twice. Nearly 20% of the country's workers are unemployed, taxes are the most onerous in Western Europe, and the national debt is a staggering $33 billion. While FitzGerald and his Fine Gael (Family of Irish) party called for belt tightening, Haughey used the gift of gab, refusing to commit himself to cuts and promising vaguely to stimulate growth. Nonetheless, Haughey, the strong front runner throughout the four-week campaign, stressed that coalition governments are weak and entreated voters to give him a strong majority...
...updated version of the old party line. By dialing a special number, teens can hook into conversations with as many as ten other anonymous callers. Operated by a Los Angeles company called Ultraphone, the service has been a boon to youngsters with a good voice and a gift of gab...
...sting operation code-named Western Sizzler and run by Birmingham police, and the customers were thieves looking to make a quick buck on stolen goods. Johnny was Johnny Samaniego, 34, a squat, bearded undercover narcotics agent on loan from the Tuscaloosa police department. With his gift for gab, Johnny would lure the thieves into talking about their crimes and giving their names and addresses. "Where did you steal it?" Johnny would ask. Eager to brag, many would supply the full details, even showing off the tools they used. All the while, a video camera concealed behind the counter recorded...
...Manhattan town house, the 27-room redoubt in Palm Beach, Fla., the Riviera hideaway with gardens "breathtakingly similar" to those of Monet's Giverny, the London flat filled with English antiques she had shipped from America. The charm of her memoir--part cosmetic- mogul tough talk, part Gracie Allen gab--is that Lauder so heartily enjoys her success and so clearly understands how it all came about...