Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...calling on reporters from small newspapers, such as the Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times, as well as major news organizations (NBC and CBS each got in two questions). "I know I've been staying down front here too much," he said at one point, referring to the heavyweight correspondents nearest him. "I've got to prove I can look at the back rows." Accustomed to more combative Chief Executives, the hard-boiled Washington reporters seemed disarmed by Reagan's cheery sincerity and grandfatherly style. He addressed many of the female correspondents as "young lady"-even longtime CBS White...
...railroad depot, dispensing her startling wit and candor. His brother Billy was cheerfully posing for snapshots at the gas pump, permanent beer can ominously poised. Even the President-elect and his wife were visible, making occasional forays to greet childhood friends or to eat at the nearest restaurants-every forkful watched for significance by a merciless post-Watergate press corps. A sizable slice of the citizenry willingly guided the influx of strangers round the sites-Jimmy's birthplace, his country home, his father's simple grave. (The ambitious monuments in the cemetery are not marked CARTER, however...
...nearest of the near-misses came in a two-play sequence late in the period, when Murray, blood spattered over his shirt from a cut lip, lost a race to a centering pass with Gaudet. Moments later, the netminder blocked a Murray shot by falling on the puck in the slot...
...same thing and failed. Conventional wisdom suggests that Government is too complex these days for Cabinet officers to have true authority. The problems, say the experts, cut through several departments and agencies and only the White House can arbitrate them. In that environment, Presidents turn to the men nearest them. Aides become, in effect, Cabinet members...
...proposed anti-busing amendment, tacked onto a $9 billion appropriations bill for the Departments of State, Justice and Commerce, would prohibit the Justice Department from spending money to send children to any school but the one nearest their home...