Word: margarete
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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There she was, yet again, this time in Rapid City, S.D. This time her name was Margaret Dinock, but she was part of a national Greek chorus, haunting the rope lines of every candidate in every Democratic primary this year. As almost always, she was middle-aged and working class, with a desperate tale to tell, usually about health care. And this time, in classic Hellenic fashion on the last day of the Democratic primary season, she offered narrative punctuation: a gray sweatshirt with a picture of a vehemently orange car screeching to a halt at a highway barrier...
...chill, a brisk Methodist propriety. These days, though, I imagine Clinton would have thrown back her head and guffawed. And maybe said something like "Ain't that the truth." That has been Hillary Clinton's story this year: she has learned how to be at ease with people like Margaret Dinock, and has come to believe that she - and only she - can adequately represent them in the White House. She mentions them in every speech. Actually, it's more than that: they are the throbbing heart of every speech for a candidate who, in the beginning, rarely showed any heart...
...Emerson Winchester III, Harvard’s own representative to the 4077th. To B.J. Honnicut, whose quiet manner let him get away with murder. Most of all, farewell to the oldtimers. To the camp fashion consultant, Corporal Klinger. To Father Mulcahey, the perfect priest in the Korean War. To Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan, and to the memory of Frank “No Lips” Burns, who together perfected the art of irritation. And finally to Benjamin Franklin Pierce—Hawkeye—whose limitless storehouse of wit kept American punsters in full...
...that a majority of Britons became homeowners, thanks largely to the encouragement of successive governments. Restrictions imposed on landlords decades earlier had made renting out real estate less lucrative, sparking a gradual sell-off of private properties. A popular scheme launched in 1980 by newly elected Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher granted public-housing tenants the right to buy those homes for knock-down prices. The measure was cheered by one Thatcher minister as "one of the most important social revolutions of this century." By 2005, 70% of U.K. homes were owner-occupied, less than in Spain or Italy, but above...
...judge from the extracts already in the public domain, she'll certainly win props for her fearlessness. Here she is, introducing the late Princess Margaret to a gay cabinet minister and his partner. "'Have you met Chris Smith, our Culture Secretary, Ma'am?' I asked. She peered at him. 'And this is his partner,' I continued. 'Partner for what?' I took a breath...