Word: newt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Meet Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), the second-highest ranking Republican in the House of Representatives. Yesterday morning, House Republicans elected him the new minority whip over Rep. Edward Madigan, a highly respected legislator from Illinois...
...later, a Congressman cannot even discuss the possibility of that kind of tax increase without being warned, "Remember what happened to Ullman." Last year, despite the 99% re- election rate, two powerful House Democrats were rejected by the voters. Such dramatic defeats are frightening to legislators, argues G.O.P. Congressman Newt Gingrich of Georgia, "even if they're statistically irrelevant. It's like fear of flying...
...shopper, a woman nearing 50, pauses before a cosmetics counter. "I'd use anything if it worked," she reflects. "Slug juice, toad spit, eye of newt, anything at all to mummify myself, stop the drip-drip of time, stay more or less...
...inheritors of intellectual doubt and malaise, the party that is soft on defense, that perceives America as being on a long, slow decline. The Republicans, by contrast, have successfully cast themselves as the party of stand-tall patriotism and vigilant anti-Communism. As the hawkish Republican Congressman Newt Gingrich of Georgia put it, "If this election is between George Bush and someone who is more liberal than George McGovern, we win. If it's an election between two competent leaders, we lose...
...meet Charlie, the eight year-old newt expert who, with his best friend Servin, hopes to capture a giant turtle in the marshes near his house. We meet his father Ivan, an astronomer whose obsession is to study the supernova in Chile, and his mother Polly, a professional photographer who feels as though she does not spend enough time with her children. And Hoffman also introduces us to the 11 year-old Amanda, whose goals are simple--to study gymnastics with Bela Karyouli and to have her braces...