Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...college freshman in 1925, I was sure that the Scopes trial, in which Clarence Darrow in effect made a monkey of William Jennings Bryan, had put an end to any serious debate. Even earlier, President Woodrow Wilson had confidently declared as much, and no important politician contradicted him, until, in 1980, presidential candidate Ronald Reagan won cheers from the religious right by announcing, "Evolution is only a theory" -- meaning, of course, a mere hypothesis...
Gamiest Campaign. A lot of politicians monkey around, but Gary Hart lost his cool, his credibility and his candidacy in the 1988 U.S. presidential race after his dalliance with model Donna Rice on a yacht called Monkey Business. "I've made some mistakes," Hart conceded. "Maybe big mistakes, but not bad mistakes." Said Rice: "Everybody's got some old bones in their closet, and now mine...