Word: oles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote that so buoyed Ole Boy Jordan was perhaps the most impressive -and unexpected-in Carter's string of recent victories in the once recalcitrant 95th Congress. The House, by a margin of 223 to 190, fell a surprising 53 votes short of overriding Carter's veto of a $10 billion public works bill that would have funded 59 highly varied water projects scattered throughout the legislators' home districts. In a three-day publicity blitz, the President had labeled the bill "wasteful," "inflationary" and an example of "pork barrel" politics...
...whatever politcal uniqueness it once had. The speeches bored, the issues were non-existent, and the candidates came across as conservative facsimiles of one another. All stood slightly to the right of Ronald Reagan. All were good family men, churchgoers, Rotarian-types who seemed to have gone straight from Ole Miss to Ole Miss Law School, on to the D.A.'s office, private practice and finally politics...
Moore graduated from Ole Main High School in North Little Rock in June of 1975, running for more than 1000 yards his senior year. He has a unique running style--not exceptionally quick with his feet, Moore has a striding motion well-suited to outside running, and superb accelerating ability...
...been dragged along by his wife--he hunched his shoulders as though he were trying to make himself inobtrusive, and he didn't talk much. The other two were elderly gentlemen who had somehow gotten the impression that the tour was stopping for a show at the Grand Ole Opry. It wasn...
...opposite directions shortly after Willie was born. Willie was five when he got a guitar and a few rudimentary lessons from his grandfather, a blacksmith who had taken mail-order music courses. Soon Willie was pressing his ear against an old wooden Philco radio to hear Grand Ole Opry. At 13 he formed his own band-with his father, then living in a town 40 miles away, on fiddle. He left high school at 16, was mustered out of the Air Force after eight months because of back problems, and quickly married a Waco carhop named Martha Matthews...