Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...father had been awarded tenure at the University of Georgia after becoming friendly with a politician named Jimmy Carter. The last time Bogart Jackson and his daddy spoke had been three years...
...unwittingly gave her a helping hand by putting up an inexperienced candidate: John Butcher, 39, an accountant. The Labor Party also did its bit for Williams by choosing a candidate from the party's far left: John Backhouse, 28, a math teacher. Neither was any match for the politician who has few peers in Britain when it comes to charming an audience. Williams has a special gift for creating an immediate rapport, even with strangers. However dark and foggy the night, residents never hesitated to open their doors to talk with the tousle-haired campaigner in her well-worn...
...that the bookmakers had to close off betting when the odds reached 1 to 10 for a Williams victory. The clincher came when the Times of London unleashed its thunder, generally reserved for Conservative candidates, in her support. Said the Times: "It is hard to think of any other politician today who can inspire the warmth and trust that she does." The Times neatly absolved the nagging consciences of Crosby's Tory voters by reminding them that they did "not have to decide whether they would like a Social Democratic government but whether they would like an extra Social...
...other issues, Papandreou's personality seems split between the bluff and bluster of the consummate politician and the ideological pronouncements of a dedicated Socialist. Papandreou's ambivalence was particularly apparent in his first major policy speech last week when he waffled on the two key foreign policy planks of his election campaign: Greek withdrawal from NATO and the removal of U.S. military bases from Greece. He indicated that Greece might ultimately withdraw from the military wing of NATO, but he left it unclear whether this was his firm intention or merely a suggestion. Said one high-level NATO...
Odets's inability to escape this 1930s pigeonhole is reflected in the intensely ideological, even didactic, nature of his plays. The public received Odets less as the artist than as an unavowed literary politician, swept into the office of playwright laureate on the strength of the politics spouted in his characters' soliloquies, but just as resoundingly voted out when the political climate had changed...