Search Details

Word: lincolnisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Bush on some matter, and the giggles start to rise again, but it is not the same as when he led the free world. The country needs a funny President, and Clinton is not it. To be truly funny, a U.S. President has to 1) have real wit, like Lincoln and J.F.K.; 2) be a sort of caricature, like Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Coolidge and F.D.R.; 3) act with such consistency in one's decisions and policies that the very predictability becomes a hoot; or 4) have done something that really merits the use of a special prosecutor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAY IT AGAIN, DICK | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...University is ranked among the top five tourist sites in Boston, and John Harvard is currently the second-most photographed statue in the country, trailing only the Lincoln Memorial. (The Statue of Liberty is technically considered a monument...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: GET ON THE BUS! | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

WASHINGTON: With the coffee klatches, the Lincoln bedroom rental accusations and federal phone fund-raising incidents not yet cold in the grave, a grisly new accusation has been dug up in a bid to bury the Clinton administration: Republicans charge that the President is giving plots in the hallowed Arlington National Cemetery to political donors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton: Beyond the Grave | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

President Clinton uses a caddy (8) for "routine movements" and a Lincoln for parades. What do other world leaders do for wheels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEERING THE GLOBE | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...AMERICA THEY TRUST Driving American is the top coupe for a number of U.S. allies. Chile's President Eduardo Frei likes a Lincoln (2), but others choose Cadillac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEERING THE GLOBE | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

Previous | 298 | 299 | 300 | 301 | 302 | 303 | 304 | 305 | 306 | 307 | 308 | 309 | 310 | 311 | 312 | 313 | 314 | 315 | 316 | 317 | 318 | Next