Word: newt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Secretary of State George Shultz grandly staged their own truce negotiations, but that hardly dispels what one Congressman calls a "reservoir of bitterness" against the Speaker. Some of that is normal in the election season, but it seemed to go beyond all bounds last week when Georgia's Newt Gingrich stormed through Florida calling Wright a "genuinely corrupt man" and comparing him to Mussolini. Even given Gingrich's right-wing fervor, that is startling stuff...
...used marijuana, including a staggering 64% of those ages 18 to 25. Indeed, two Democratic presidential candidates, Albert Gore and Bruce Babbitt, were prompted to admit that they too had tried pot years ago. Similar confessions came from Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island and conservative Republican Congressman Newt Gingrich of Georgia...
...habits of a lifetime -- no easy task for a man just turned 76 -- and surround himself ! once more with aides who will challenge him, rather than merely people he feels comfortable with. And even if he does, Washington teems with skeptics who think it may be too late. Says Newt Gingrich, a conservative Republican Congressman from Georgia: "He will never again be the Reagan that he was before he blew it. He is not going to regain our trust and our faith easily...
Ronald Reagan is no longer the apple of our eye--or the sunshine of our life. Even his friends feel betrayed. "He will never again be the Reagan that he was before the blew it," Republican Representative Newt Gingrich of Georgia, one of the President's staunchest allies in the Congress, said the other day. "He is not going to regain our trust and faith easily...
Ripley's bonding with Newt is inevitable, as Hurd says, "because they were both survivors of their own particular group's encounter with extraterrestrial species. They knew what they were up against, and the others didn't. In Alien, people had to fight or die. Now Ripley could save herself but chooses to fight to save Newt." It is, in part, the unexpectedness and depth of her feelings that give the film its propulsive power, fueling the final hour to at least two more heart-stopper endings than the average thriller...