Word: heroicizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...younger brother, spent $2 million more on the campaign than his Democratic opponent while trying to stick the standard "liberal" label on him. But Cleland carefully distanced himself from President Clinton and followed his own counsel to "stay in the sensible center." That broad appeal, coupled with his heroic background, made Cleland unbeatable, even though Southern Democrats hadn't won an open Senate seat since...
...look forward with great pleasure to four years of wonderful, inspiring speeches, full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection--plus more goddamned nonsense," Brinkley wonderfully declaimed. Perhaps it is due to the fact that Brinkley is to retire after tomorrow's "This Week" that the heroic news man unleashed such ire at the Politco of Politicos, at a guy who might just as well have run the Undergraduate Council. It couldn't just have been Clinton who upset Brinkley. Surely that infamous Eli, George Herbet Walker Bush, could easily have earned the epithet of a "bore...
Gilchrest's quixotic career includes heroic service in Vietnam--he received a Navy Commendation Medal--17 years teaching high school, and work as a forest ranger and barn builder. Noted for his fiscal conservatism, he has shown independence from the G.O.P. by backing the assault-weapons...
Though Johnson has a master's degree in international affairs, it came after his real foreign experience: nearly seven years as a POW in Vietnam. A long, heroic military career might have been enough for most people; Johnson found a new life in Congress. And he is so popular in his district, one of the nation's most affluent, that no Democrat--until Lee Cole--has opposed him since he was first elected...
...honors. Elliott assisted on the game-tying goal, then nailed an overtime game-winner from 30 feet out, in a frenzied finish which saw Cornell goalie Hemant Sharma stop several breakaways. Cornell dealt Dartmouth (5-6-1, 2-1-1) its first league loss of the season, erasing a heroic two-goal performance from Dartmouth's Methembe Ndlovu. The Big Red in all likelihood squashed the Big Green's dreams of an Ivy title, as Elliott's 17th career assist made him Cornell's all-time leader...