Word: lotte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Trent Lott, like Bill Clinton, learned much of what he needed to know about politics in junior high. But if Clinton appealed to the popular kids and made himself the center of attention, Lott made his way more quietly, by rounding up the strays one handshake and one favor at a time...
...family had just moved from the hills of upstate Mississippi to the shipyard town of Pascagoula, so Lott entered the seventh grade as a stranger. He was too slight for such sports as football, so he played tuba in the band. And he had such a space between his front teeth that he was nicknamed...
...Fifth Amendment, declined to provide documents subpoenaed by the House investigation led by Representative Dan Burton of Indiana. In the Senate, Democrats and even some G.O.P. moderates have complained that Senator Fred Thompson badly overplayed his hand when he asked for a $6.5 million hearing budget. Majority leader Trent Lott is already worried that the public sees the Hill probes as witch-hunts; he may, in a deal with Democratic minority leader Tom Daschle, end up shrinking the scope and duration of Thompson's hearings...
This sketchy behaviour is not the exclusive terrain of Democrats. The Republican National Committee just had a three-day event in Palm Beach. Individuals and corporations who donated at least $175,000 over four years were invited to consort with leading Republican leaders including Sen. Trent Lott (R-Mich.), the majority leader, Sen. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), the speaker, and Rep. Robert Livingston (R-La.), chair of the House Appropriations Committee. To give access to and listen to the needs of only those who can pay seems to be a rather odd way of running a democracy...
Those looking to support a good cause could find themselves having lunch with the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, reading a signed copy of Hillary Rodham Clinton's "It Takes a Village" or drinking from old-fashioned bar glasses with Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.)--as long as they are willing...