Word: huffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Texas, House Majority Leader Jim Wright is in the toughest fight of his career against Jim Bradshaw, a former city council member in Fort Worth who has been aided by a surge in voter registration in traditionally Republican precincts. Democratic Congressman Morris Udall appeared to be moving past Richard Huff, Republican real estate millionaire, until Udall revealed that he is suffering from Parkinson's disease, thus injecting another uncertainty into the Arizona race...
...comic writer. Her well-known early story, Why I Live at the P.O., is a hilarious portrait of sheer cussedness; the narrator, postmistress at "the next to smallest P.O. in the entire state of Mississippi," makes herself so obnoxious to her bizarre kinspeople that she stalks out in a huff and sets up housekeeping at her place of business. The town is then split into those who will patronize the post office and those who refuse to use the mail at all, rather than cross the family...
...latest victim, Rebecca G. Huff, a 30-year-old graduate student, was stabbed to death September 14 in front of her apartment building. The other victims are 17-year-old Shirley Small, killed April 20, and 23-year-old Glenda Richmond, killed July...
Udall's opponent is Richard H. Huff, 54, a West Virginia native and real estate millionaire who hopes to ride a conservative, pro-Reagan tide into office. Huff is backed by a variety of conservative political-action committees, including antiabortion and evangelical religious groups. He attacks Udall as too liberal, too weak on defense, too big a spender and too busy in Washington to care for his constituents. Says Huff: "I make no bones about it. I am pro-busiess; Mo is antibusiness. He does not represent the conservative philosophy of Arizona...
...Huff expects to spend up to $500,000, much of it from out of state; Udall is budgeting some $475,000. Udall's chief hope is that he can offset his losses in the Tucson area by reminding voters in the district's arid hinterland of how he has helped shape legislation affecting their water supplies, including pushing a $100 million appropriation through Congress last year for the huge Central Arizona Project, which would bring Colorado River water to the Phoenix and Tucson areas...