Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...journalists and other political observers have tried to restore some sense of proportion to the affair. Columnist David Broder of the Washington Post, whose newspaper has been among the most heated in pursuit, last week deplored the unthinking usage of the suffix "gate" for matters that in no way echo the vast moral subversion of the Nixon era. Wrote Broder: "The mischief in labeling is that it sometimes distorts reality. On the basis of what is known now, not only is this not another Watergate, it is almost exactly the opposite." Reagan aides have talked to reporters. The President...
...prolonged procedure is not kind to front runners. Mondale, the fastest out of the gate, has been the first to run into difficulties. "Mondale is suffering front-runner blight," says Wisconsin Democratic Chairman Matthew Flynn. "There are very high expectations for him, and when he stumbles a bit the criticism seems to echo." After slipping slightly in public opinion surveys and being topped by Cranston in a June straw poll of party activists in Wisconsin, Mondale has attracted withering scrutiny. Is he too beholden to special-interest groups? Can he conquer his image of outdated liberalism? Is he the most...
...something that has struck a lot of people in the solar plexus." A Columbia colleague, Political Scientist Alan F. Westin, criticized the tendency of many journalists thoughtlessly to dub the affair "briefingate" or "debategate. Said he: "I find myself just bored to tears by someone sticking 'gate' after every little foible." His point was well taken: the briefing book dispute did not remotely resemble a Watergate-class scandal. -By Ed Magnuson...
...Background...OK, background action." The extras march by the gate peeking at the camera trying to look casual, "Action...
Another Dempsey contribution to language was "million-dollar gate," his 1921 knockout of Carpentier at Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City being the first. In an unusual result for fighters of any day, he kept some of the money. Before settling into the window table at Jack Dempsey's Broadway restaurant in Manhattan, he tried a little barnstorming, some refereeing. Always he was available to bat out an occasional dilettante, like Writer Paul Gallico or Financier J. Paul Getty. After he closed the restaurant in 1974, Dempsey returned full time to being heavyweight champ...