Word: newts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comes from the warmth of his customers. They need him desperately, after all, and when they hear his plane they are out on their makeshift runways, pulling sleds, flashing blinding smiles. On this route the mailman is always invited inside. A couple who wish to be known only as Newt and Sharon baked him a cherry pie on this particular visit. Sharon makes her pastries with bear fat. They talked of the six otters they had seen outside in the Salmon River that morning. Newt tore through his mail, furiously writing checks as he went. "This...
...Reagan urging him to speak out more forcefully against apartheid. They complained that the State Department had failed to attack "the evils of apartheid and the violations of human rights in a straightforward, understandable manner." In addition, 35 conservative Congressmen, including such New Right Turks as Georgia Republican Newt Gingrich, invited South African Ambassador Bernardus Fourie to Capitol Hill and gave him a letter threatening to support economic sanctions against South Africa unless there is "a demonstrated sense of urgency about ending apartheid." South Africa, they warned, cannot count on "benign neglect" by American conservatives of its racial policies...
...push an E, but what is that long-tailed bird perched atop the Q? What kind of fish are swimming in the water trapped by the upper part of the X? What is that spotted amphibian sliding down the N? Answers: a quetzal; an X-ray fish; a newt...
...barbed attacks on supply-side economics and staunchly defends such traditionally liberal measures as the food stamp program and the Voting Rights Act. His eclectic stands have made him a target of the so-called young Turks, a highly vocal group of right-wing Republicans in the House. Charges Newt Gingrich of Georgia, a member of the group: "Dole is the tax collector for the welfare state." Responds Dole: "If you are in the minority, you can put out a lot of newsletters and say, 'I'm for lower taxes.' We have a little different view...
Listen to two young men of the baby-boom generation. "The revolution is already happening in our party," said a key campaign manager for Reagan-Bush. "Our new men are on the way. The Jack Kemps, Trent Letts, Newt Gingrichs, Vin Webers may not make it to the top in 1988. But we'll be in control. The Bob Doles, the Howard Bakers are out-through. Unless George Bush makes it, we'll elect the first President who wasn't in uniform in World War II." The second baby boomer, liberal Democratic Congressman Charles Schumer...