Word: lunges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...child advocacy, as the image of daughter Chelsea loomed large on the screen behind her. (Message to the Other Couple: We know about delivery rooms and tonsil operations.) Vice President Al Gore did his part in the family reunion, using the story of his sister's death from lung cancer to point out the ravages of teenage smoking...
...decades in public life acting almost as though he had no family, suddenly carted out some of his kids for an appearance on a Larry King show in which he praised the maternal attributes of his usually invisible wife. Gore, in his speech recalling his sister's death from lung cancer, neglected to mention that he continued to raise and sell tobacco on his Tennessee farm for several years after she died...
...public favored. When Jack Kemp signed on to the Dole ticket, he modified what had seemed, the week before, his principled positions on affirmative action and the children of illegal immigrants. At last week's convention, Al Gore's excruciatingly extended description of his own sister's death from lung cancer in 1984 was at preposterous variance with his hymn to tobacco farming while seeking votes in North Carolina in 1988. Late last week in the Washington Post, Gore explained that an "emotional numbness" after his sister's death "prevented me from integrating into all aspects of my life...
...GORE Tears, not smoke, in their eyes as he tells delegates of his sister's battle with lung cancer...
...fair for Vice President Gore to link his concern about tobacco with his sister's death of lung cancer. But the problem with so relentless a tug at the heartstrings is that it precludes real argument. "I have suffered so much," the speaker is really saying, "that if you contest me, you deny the power of my feelings...