Word: gloats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President is attempting to appear above the fray. In declaring military success, he stressed that this was "not a time to gloat." Yet even as Bush's victory address was being composed, his chief of staff, John Sununu, was meeting with the half a dozen top Republicans who help plot political strategy and are known informally as the Wednesday Group. The day after the speech, Sununu summoned Republican lawmakers to the White House to consider ways to link Bush's foreign success to his domestic policy...
...bitter. Bitter at lovers who gloat. Bitter at women who say they don't want me to get hurt. Bitter at roommates who eat my Valentine's Day candy...
...ever gloat...
...campaign -- "Read my lips: no new taxes" -- a pledge he should never have made, since it has hamstrung economic policy throughout his presidency. Republican candidates screamed in fear that they had lost a potentially crucial issue for the fall congressional elections. Democratic congressional leaders kept a promise not to gloat; they gravely commended the President's statesmanship. But lower-ranking Democrats could not hide their glee that at last they could silence G.O.P. gibes that they belong to the high-tax party...
...this measure, Bush's foreign policy has got it right almost every time, the notable exception being China. The President's "don't gloat" response to communism's demise has exactly satisfied Mikhail Gorbachev's needs -- which at this time are also America's. So, too, the Administration's Middle East policy has been adroit. A combination of private pressure and thinly veiled public threats has pushed Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir so far into a corner that even he may finally have no alternative but to give peace a chance...