Word: nastier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...revisionist assault has taken shape under the guidance of the Committee for a Marseillaise of Fraternity, which is petitioning for a version that cuts - out the nastier bits of gristle and gore. Sponsored by such leading lights as First Lady Danielle Mitterrand and soccer hero Michel Platini, the committee points to the research of Armand Thuair, a former fire fighter who conducted an exhaustive survey of 175 national anthems, purporting to prove that "France is the only country in the world to have adopted and preserved a bellicose national anthem...
Galper and Katz make it sound as if most Black students in Sanders Theatre that night were applauding all of the racism that Jeffries is accused of. This is wrong on two counts--he didn't express his nastier views, and even some of the things he did say got a lukewarm reception from both races...
Instead, Bush's current economic policy consists mainly of blaming congressional Democrats for the decline and turning nastier in his retorts to their criticisms of his failures to act. The President hopes that approach will pay off when he runs for re-election. But it is no substitute for a coherent attack on the nation's economic and social woes...
...someone to shore up a weak side -- to lend geographical or ideological balance, for example. Conservative Californian Ronald Reagan picked Connecticut-Texas moderate George Bush. It may be a matter of ages, aesthetics, chemistry and coloring, as well as political alliances. Elder, moderate, military statesman Dwight Eisenhower chose younger, nastier, darker, feistier conservative Richard Nixon. At some time down the line, national tickets will be balanced by sex and race as well...
Whoever threw the first punch, the race that just ended may win the prize as the most negative one ever, even nastier than anything served up in the 1988 presidential campaign. Mattox, whose campaign slogan was "Texas Tough," accused Richards, a silver-haired grandmother and recovering alcoholic, of being a marijuana-smoking cokehead when she was Travis County commissioner more than a decade ago. She accused him of financial shenanigans, including taking a large campaign contribution from a savings and loan operative. In a television ad, Richards also brought up Mattox's 1984 indictment on a bribery charge, without mentioning...