Word: nose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan's innate optimism, which remains largely intact despite three major operations since he entered the White House and minor surgery last week to remove a cancerous growth from his nose, could help him fight back. His overall approval rating in polls remains high (53% in the latest Gallup), and Wirthlin predicts it will rebound to 60% or so as attention swings away from the scandal. At the least, the President seems likely to remain a formidable, if diminished, player in the Administration's battles with Congress as he tries to pin down his place in history...
...incurred a "small, red bump" on his eyelid (caused by a contact lens). You could read about it on page 3 of the Washington Post. A classic of the genre is an item that ran in the New York Times a couple of years ago: GLASS CUTS KISSINGER'S NOSE. Only a nick really, and he'd been out of power for nine years...
What you see is a compact-model candidate, 5 ft. 8 in. tall, with a mop of dark brown hair just beginning to gray at the temples, caterpillar-thick eyebrows and an aggressive Grecian nose tempered by a soft, almost shy smile. But in the Democratic presidential race Dukakis is as hot as a Friday-night traffic jam heading for Cape Cod. Ever since he unveiled his long-shot candidacy in March, Dukakis has been running like a modern-day Hermes in wing- tip shoes. He inherited most of Gary Hart's Iowa organization, raised a record $4.2 million...
...where one mad woman thinks she's a rooster. His home environment to some would seem a nightmare; his work environment to most would seem hell. After a day of breathing the iron filings in the New York City subways, one would think he could blow his nose and sink a Hudson River liner. Worse, a braking train in a tunnel in this town can sound like a ten- ton banshee caught in a vise. And yet there he sits, caressing an acoustic guitar in bedlam, playing Bach and Mozart, Francisco Tarrega and Erik Satie, and one of the reasons...
...does the U.S. appoint itself the guardian of free passage of oil through the gulf? The incident with the Stark should teach the Reagan Administration not to poke its nose wherever it likes...