Word: grins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couple of Wyoming delegates were slipping away. Would Strauss call them? "Yeah, give me that phone," he said. Strauss got his man, purred into the phone about needing every vote and talked about returning to Wyoming to hunt with the delegate. Strauss's face broke into a grin as he put down the receiver. "We got those two back," he told Jordan. Strauss is a man who knows the value of a swap. He had raised money for many of the politicians here, done them countless favors, and now he was collecting for his side in return...
...often during the Republican Convention, I decided I'd wear these to this one." Every day he had several story ideas ready before the live broadcast began. Once one of them was aired he would begin improvising. "Everything," he said, "is happening right now." He added with a grin: "If there's no drama, I'll turn to human interest-like the 26-year-old woman who has five kids and never had time for a honeymoon so she opted to come to the convention as her honeymoon...
...Carter person says 'Tom O'Neill can't vote, he's across the hall talking to someone,' then the Kennedy leader says, 'Sure, and how about Governor King?'" Massachusetts delegation aide Greg Jarboe explains. "They always manage to work it out," he adds, flashing the type of grin that marks people who like the game of politics very, very much...
...Core quantitative reasoning requirement meeting. UPPERCASE. The horror, the horror. No one really knows what'll be said in this meeting. No one wants to know. Grin and bear...
...stickers and buttons are festooning torsos, fenders and lapels. Haifa dozen "J.R." novelty records are heading for the charts. Society matrons are planning Dallas costume parties for the night the program returns. Politicians have climbed on the bandwagon too. Jimmy Carter, at a Dallas fund raiser, confessed with a grin: "I came to Dallas to find out confidentially who shot J.R. If any of you could let me know that, I could finance the whole campaign this fall." Perhaps not: at the Republican Convention, Reaganites distributed buttons that read A DEMOCRAT SHOT...