Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reshaped it, was new too. He didn't realize his every remark would now be measured for maturity, not ferocity. He didn't realize that once a battle is won, it's time to move graciously to the peace table. "I keep forgetting that all the ground rules have changed,'' he told Time last week. "I have consistently, all year, said things that made no sense for the Speaker of the House...
...took his class canoeing in the Okefenokee Swamp or on field trips to Copper Hill, which he called "a famous industrial-pollution site in Chattanooga." Gingrich's effort to build such a large student following had a pragmatic side to it--a number of his students eventually became the ground troops in his campaigns for Congress...
...Neill room, where they usually held their weekly Bible class, and took turns reading Scripture and praying, sometimes holding hands. They finally told their leaders they would go along with the family-planning money and vote for the bill. Now Gingrich needed the moderates to cede ground over the rape and incest question. "This is a time when the American people are looking at what we are doing," he told them. Did they want to go home losers...
...people who don't give him the right kind of approval or prestige. When somebody in power acts that way, it's a very unsettling thing to see; there are always encounters with people who have more power or less power than you, and you have to know your ground and be proud...
...SEEMS CERTAIN TO BE A WHITE Christmas; snow already covers the ground in Tuzla. But merry? The weather will be bitingly cold, the air filled with the stench of diesel fumes. Christmas dinner will be the T-rations detested by G.I.s; carols will be sung to the hum of noisy electric generators. And many of the soldiers setting up camps for the Bosnia peacekeeping operation will sleep in tents. Big ones with wooden floors, heat, fluorescent lights and flush toilets. But still tents...