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...Prime Minister's credibility, which rests largely on a reputation for doggedly staying the course. Thatcher refused to discuss any date whatsoever. While the nation braced for a June election, one of her aides insisted last week that waiting for an early announcement was like "barking up a gum tree." Yet the Prime Minister was not above some unabashed campaigning of her own, rallying the faithful wherever she goes and giving a stream of recent interviews loaded with electoral grapeshot. Most likely, there was a one-woman debate going on at 10 Downing Street, between the Iron Lady...
...Scaduto--"Skiddoo" to the office--all gestures, all heel clicks on the corridor tiles, shooting his pink cuffs, tugging at his earlobe, pinching his face at his reflection in the elevator mirror, tap-dancing as he talked and as his bubble gum snapped... He had teeth like piano keys, and spit flew out of his mouth when he talked...
...Education of Henry Adams. The extended flow of his letters-these three volumes take him from age 20 to 54-portray someone quite different. Even in middle age, he was a man of considerable enthusiasm ("Man is still going fast upward," he wrote to a friend) and considerable charm ("Gum-drops are better than chocolate in hot weather," he advised a two-year-old neighbor...
Ohio Senator John Glenn came in fourth. In the Winnebago trailer decorated with Glenn sings, Richard S. Sloan, intently chewing gum, tersely discussed the results over the phone. After hanging up, the serious-looking, youngish aide turned to the one reporter waiting for comment. Anticipating the question, he said simply: "We are pleased with our showing here...we hoped to build an organization and we have started that process...
...Gum-nut, adj.: authentically Australian, provincial...