Word: pail
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...like Dick Gephardt, who also tend to be pro-military, churchgoing and socially conservative. In the 1970s they were supplanted by radical-liberal activists, refugees from the 1960s protest marches who tended to be antiwar, antipoverty, passionate about civil rights and civil liberties and more secular than the lunch-pail crowd. Bill Clinton's New Democrat movement was an information-age reaction against the two previous generations--a free-trade, business-friendly revision of traditional Democratic economics and a socially conservative reaction to the excesses of 1960s liberalism (especially when it came to law enforcement and welfare reform...
Unlike the original radical libs, who clashed with the blue-collar Dems, Dean has cleverly embraced Gephardt's lunch-pail populism. To do so, he had to delete Howard Dean 2.0, who was a militant New Democrat. He abandoned his support for free trade. He now opposes the New Democrat impulse to reform traditional liberal programs like old-age entitlements, public education (Dean is even skeptical about charter schools, a New Dem staple) and affirmative action. Indeed, about the only Clintonian remnant that Dean supports is fiscal conservatism...
...Knights are spectacular teams, they both are capable of beating Harvard if it doesn’t put in the same kind of effort it did against BU. In the wake of the weekend split with Princeton and Yale, Mazzoleni said his team needs a “lunch-pail type effort” and failing to have that made the Crimson not only “an average team” but also “very beatable...
...We’re going to have to be ready from the opening face-off...to play a lunch-pail-type mentality,” he said. “To get to all the loose pucks, and compete and come up with loose pucks. And be physical when we have to, but at the same time play our game offensively because we like to skate and create plays and push the puck...
Like the team’s penalty kill, Harvard’s concentrated forward lines will be tested against BU. And with star Terrier netminder Sean Fields covering the crease, fans should have a good idea whether Mazzoleni’s emphasis on the importance of lunch-pail mentality brings big rewards or (temporary) ruin...