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Word: pledgees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush, who has spent most of his energy shoving his opponent out of the mainstream, knows he must protect his middle-class flank with some positive programs. But he is still busy depicting Dukakis as a hopeless leftie out of touch with the instincts of Middle America. "The liberals hate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congeniality Wins | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

The A.C.L.U. has replaced the flag and the Pledge of Allegiance as George Bush's hot-button "values" issue, quite an achievement for a 68-year-old association with 250,000 members that was until recently often confused with a large California school with a good football team. One of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight on the A.C.L.U. | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

These are distinctions not easily made. The causes that receive the backing of the A.C.L.U. -- which is dedicated to defending the individual freedoms in the Bill of Rights -- often require that even its supporters hold their noses. The A.C.L.U. has made enemies left and right in defense of draft-card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight on the A.C.L.U. | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

It isn't easy. When he is in Texas, Dukakis seems like the man who fell to earth: alien and uncomfortable. The Republicans have been effectively tarring the Governor with the liberal label and pressing all the local "hot buttons" -- gun control, the A.C.L.U., the Pledge of Allegiance, capital punishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tory Texan and the Indiana Kid Bentsen | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

Week by week, Bentsen is growing stronger as a campaigner; he is looser now and more comfortable with a TelePrompTer. He is beginning to campaign like a man who can't lose -- and he can't. Yet the Republicans continue to make ! headway. Bentsen says he was "bloody outraged" by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tory Texan and the Indiana Kid Bentsen | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

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