Word: manne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elect me Chancellor." Experts agree that conditions will have to get considerably worse if Strauss is to have a real chance of winning the top job. Despite the growing popularity of what he says, he personally remains intensely disliked and feared outside Bavaria as ein gefährlicher Mann (a dangerous man). That may be a reaction not only to his ultraconservatism but also to the authoritarianism he demonstrated in his Cabinet positions. Yet in person, Strauss is a witty intellectual who can readily toss off Latin and Greek epigrams-in an incongruously thick Bavarian accent. His fondness for German...
...Robert Cornell, 54, in a largely rural Wisconsin district where inflation was a top issue. The other Republicans who voted against Nixon all won, some by impressive margins. All of the anti-Nixon Democrats survived, including such Southerners as Alabama's Walter Flowers, South Carolina's James Mann and Arkansas' Ray Thornton. Committee Chairman Peter Rodino's margin in New Jersey over John Taliaferro was an overwhelming...
...Ford would explain American justice to his students if he were a high school teacher in Watts or Harlem. Ford's reply was that Nixon was the only President to resign in shame and disgrace; that, he implied, was punishment enough. South Carolina's James R. Mann, a conservative Democrat, asked if Ford agreed with "the maxim that the law is no respecter of persons." Ford's reply: "Certainly it should be." The gentle, courtly Mann seemed about to follow up the question but hesitated and then said softly, "Thank you, Mr. President...
...reason is that natural attraction, the mysterious magnetism books exude for all bibliophiles. The scent of all of those mountains of meticulously-piled Samuelson economics texts and Norton English anthologies, analytic studies of the French Revolution and the New Deal, thick tomes of Mann and Dostoevsky, wafts out into the Square and the Yard, drawing to it all possessors of a sensitive nose. I, for one, fondle books almost as tenderly as I do women, and in these hours I wander up and down the Coop's aisles, my fingers get a good workout. The silkiness of untouched pages...
...MANN: I am fully aware that many American people consider that the President is being attacked by sinister forces in this country, by the left-wing press or by the Democrats, and I can assure this gentleman that it matters not to me his party or his position. He is subject to the rule of law and to justice, and in my role under my oath, he will get it, be he President or be he pauper...