Word: garner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...order to garner pledges for the fast, the committee is manning tables during meals in all the Houses and the Freshman Union. Cheng said...
Danny allows himself to be seduced by one of his students in the front seat of her father's Cadillac. Nor does he resist other Western pleasures: an infinity of ice cubes, catsup with French fries and Erroll Garner's piano, the good life, as he sees...
Fate and gender, not her résumé, put Ferraro on the ticket. Only two House members have been elected Vice President this century: John Sherman in 1908 and John Nance Garner in 1932. A third, Gerald Ford, was appointed to the office in 1973 after Spiro Agnew's resignation. Congressman William Miller went down with the Goldwater ticket in 1964. As Ferraro concedes, "Obviously, if I were not a woman I would not be discussed." Yet throughout her career, she has shown the ability to perform jobs that, on paper at least, she was not prepared...
...gasp may be to join forces with Jesse Jackson against Mondale. In several states, Hart and Jackson operatives are cooperating to elect more delegates and gain seats on the credentials and rules committees at the convention, where they can press charges that Mondale manipulated or evaded party rules to garner more than his fan" share of delegates...
...form of political cryonics. The Vice President is, so to speak, flash-frozen and then, should the need arise, thawed out later. There is no such thing as a good Vice President or a bad Vice President?a Vice President is simply a hypothesis on hold. John Nance Garner, Vice President in Franklin Roosevelt's first two terms, said that the office "isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss"?a phrase the listening reporter bowdlerized to "warm spit...