Word: oles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democratic candidates, the front runner is Robert Krueger, who came within 12,000 votes of defeating Tower in 1978. His style is aloof and intellectual: a Shakespearean scholar with a doctoral degree from Oxford, Krueger was once a dean at Duke University. Conservative Congressman Kent Hance, with his good-ole-boy demeanor, plays up the contrast between the elegant Krueger and him self. "I'm a Texan," he drawls. "I think like a Texan and I'll vote like a Texan." Battling Krueger for the liberal vote is State Senator Lloyd Doggett, a consumer advocate and civil rights...
Standing in the wings, he was as nervous as cold water in a hot pan. Then Country-and-Western Veteran Roy Acuff introduced him as "a plain ole country boy from Illinois." And out onstage came Secretary of Agriculture John Block, 49, making his singing debut at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Block strummed his guitar and crooned a little bit of Crying My Heart Out over You and Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain. America's top farmer was on key but had a little trouble keeping time with the Opry band. "I wonder how that fellow...
Arnett, to be sure, does not see himself as crusty or contentious. Nor, he insists, does he like to get into shouting or shooting matches with his foes. Such squabbling, he says in his best good-ole-boy manner, "is like a pile of horse manure by the side of the road. If you keep stirring it, it will keep stinking and drawing flies. But if you leave it alone, it'll dry and blow away." Alas, in the view of environmentalists, that roadside pile is growing. -By Frederic Golden. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington
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...nickel limit on raises. Over on the White Dawn, gambling is not allowed. Nevertheless, the crew has worn out three decks of cards playing no-stakes spades. Deckhand Tommy Kelly, 36, from rural Sugar Tree, Tenn., feels safer that way. Says he: "If I ever lost $200, my ole lady would be waiting at the door with a shotgun...