Word: politicker
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Although Joan has sanctioned Ted's presidential campaign and promised vaguely to politick for him, she has told her husband flatly she wants to finish her master's first, and she has refused to commit herself to life in the White House. And though their separation is supposed to be temporary, she sometimes seems unnerved by their infrequent reunions. One woman friend recalls a scene a few months ago when the Senator's car pulled up in front of Joan's apartment as she stood near by. "Oh, Christ," said Joan, "here he comes...
...gerrymander in 1815, to State Senators Joseph J.C. DiCarlo and Ronald C. MacKenzie, who were recently convicted for extortion, the Commonwealth's officials have been infamous for usurping "the public trust." A newly-created State Ethics Commission has the potential to change the state's reputation for "Old Politick." Before it can do so, however, the commission must overcome several roadblocks...
Nancy's father, Frank J. "Beginning of a New America" Bona, is a Buffalo, N. Y., lawyer who is running for President by touting himself as "the non-political candidate of this presidential year." That description is an apt one--Bona was only able to politick his way to 134 votes Tuesday in his quest for the Democratic nomination. Bona's liberal platform consists of cutting the defense budget by 30 per cent, restoring full employment with public improvement programs such as construction of rapid transit, keeping control on oil prices and extending them to profits and turning foreign affairs...
...mindless and abusive rhetoric of their pamphlet manifests some of the most insidious tactics of demogoguery: they use the Shockley position as a jumping off place for uneducated polemic on IQ tests, presenting ethnic groups as victims of IQ test discrimination. This is a blatantly politick ruse to gain the sympathy of the reader through his ethnic loyalties...
...their contemporaries, and while Drury was generally fond of his Senators, he also saw their political wens and warts. Yet it is also true that the Senators of that not-so-long-ago era seemed to walk with a longer stride, to orate with a greater flourish, and to politick with greater passion than their well-barbered successors of today...