Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back and do a lot of research on the campaign. Go back and check. You know, Dukakis got on me on ((the Administration's surcharge for)) catastrophic illness, claiming that was a tax. I said, "I don't think it was a tax." That might be a helpful guide ((to what I mean...
...There's been a certain liberation. I like to think there has been, maybe, an emergence on my part and, maybe, a little more perception on ((the press's part)). You know, when you're calling the shots, it's easier. If I say something ((as Vice President)) that just hurts me, that's one thing. If I say something that might hurt the President, I would be very much concerned about that. That made me very cautious, because I didn't want to do that when I was Vice President...
...Sutky (so called because it was open day and night)." This comes at a point weighty with literary allusions to Crime and Punishment, so the reader suspects hidden meanings and looks up sutky. No allusions here; all it means is "a day and a night." Marvelous; now we know another Russian word. Perhaps the scraps in Welsh, Turkish, Greek and Hebrew offer magical insights, perhaps not. The suspicion is that they are simply authentic sound effects. You skip them, the way in another kind of writing you skip descriptions of furniture and scenery...
From the political master he served loyally for eight years, Bush has come to appreciate the value of symbolism. By now it is innate: telegraphing decay is not the way to lead the free world. So it was that last Friday the new President said, "We know how to secure a more just and prosperous life for man on earth," the accuracy of his certitude being irrelevant to the occasion. He even looked good doing it. "I can't explain it," Barbara Bush once said, "but . . . the camera shrinks him and makes him seem small." Not last week. Perhaps...
...didn't the man who Ronald Reagan once said "is part of every decision . . . part of policymaking here" know the magnitude of the problem long ago? Bush wants the nation to believe he did not -- a claim reminiscent of his assertion that he was out of the loop when Iran-contra went awry. To TIME last week, the President professed surprise. "I've started going over the ((deficit)) numbers finally, and they're enormous," he said. "I've been going over the realities of the budget . . . There are constrained resources . . . We've got to be a little careful in terms...