Word: jessee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
A COLLECTIVE SIGN of relief could be heard from Democrats all around the country Monday, as they began to take stock of Sunday's debate between Walter F. Mondale and President Reagan. In Illinois, Rep. Paul E. Simon bould breathe a little bit easier in his effort to unseat Senate...
Percy has tried to emphasize his ties to Reagan, as well as his clout and power in the Senate. But few of his colleagues have helped him in his battle. Many far-right Republicans want Percy out so that North Carolina's Jesse Helms, champion of the Moral Majority...
She is a portly grandmother whose born-again piety has won over some of her toughest fellow inmates. She is also a convicted killer, sentenced to death row six years ago for killing her fiancé with arsenic. Margie Velma Barfield, 51, a onetime private nurse, also confessed to poisoning...
Fahrenkopf also had harsh words for Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale, saying that Mondale couldn't "leave home without...his labor crutch"--the United Auto Workers, "his black crutch"--the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, or "another crutch"--Rep. Geraldme A. Ferraro (D-N.Y.), his running mate.
Of American institutions that wield intellectual influence far disproportionate to their size, from Ivy League colleges to the New Hampshire primary, few have had more enduring impact than the little magazines of political and literary opinion. At the 70-year-old New Republic, Owner Martin Peretz likes to say, "Our...