Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, 54, will reap the rewards, or the blame, for the success or failure of the enterprise. The stakes were high: Sharon hopes to become Prime Minister of Israel one day. But brinkmanship has always been his game. As one veteran Israeli politician observed last week, "He may just pull it off. If he does, it will make him a hero...
Will we ever tire of seeing the faces of frightened young men behind a gun fighting some politician...
...first campaign dominated by television, the infirmities of Jorge Blanco's two principal rivals, Right-Winger Joaquin Balaguer, 75, and Socialist Writer-Politician Juan Bosch, 73, both former Presidents, were all too apparent. Even so, the two combative oldsters won a total of 48.7% of the vote to Jorge Blanco...
...Politician: The Life and Times of Lyndon Johnson, Ronnie Dugger...
...word socalled. Thus a friend in disfavor can become a so-called friend, and similarly the nation's leaders can become so-called leaders. Many other words can be handily tilted by shortening, by prefixes and suffixes, by the reduction of formal to familiar forms. The word politician, which may carry enough downbeat connotation for most tastes, can be given additional unsavoriness by truncation: pol. By prefacing liberal and conservative with ultra or arch, both labels can be saddled with suggestions of inflexible fanaticism. To speak of a pacifist or peacemaker as a peacenik is, through a single syllable...