Word: gipper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hear the most publicly irrepressible and optimistic G.O.P. politician since Teddy Roosevelt, and for a time, Kemp delivered as promised. His old football stories were laced with lessons: "I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100." His tales recalled the Gipper's golden age: "The world changed because Ronald Reagan had the courage of his convictions." He didn't have to mention what everyone knew: Reagan had borrowed his beliefs from Kemp, the Elmer Gantry of supply-side economics...
...story-telling magic (and Herculean marketing efforts), children will see it. Dogs will see it. By taking what could have been a tough story one day when the chips were down and making it into another animated classic, it looks like Disney managed to win one for the Gipper...
Yankton City Councillor David Hosmer says he was sitting in Gipper's, a local restaurant and bar, when he noticed that pictures of Yankton High School football players graced the walls of the building...
According to the theory, the Iowa voters of 1976, catching the campaign on TV screens that had more snow than the back 40, assumed that Reagan still looked like the Gipper. Four years later they had cable...
President Reagan got hoots when he once claimed that trees cause air pollution, but intrepid University of Florida researchers have now confirmed that the Gipper was onto something. A new study of terpenes, a component of the gooey resin in pine tree sap, shows that at least some trees actually do contribute to pollution by reacting with other pollutants and sunlight to produce ozone. While this is not yet cause for alarm, they add, the situation could get worse as temperatures rise because of the "greenhouse effect...