Word: pols
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clintwood High, where an enthusiastic crowd was gathered. Only one problem: the two Republicans, who were supposed to be at Clintwood Elementary School, found themselves at a rally for Trible's Democratic foe, Richard Davis. A flustered Trible scrambled back into the chopper. Warner, a more seasoned pol, stayed the course, shaking hands all round before retreating...
Such killing has become a kind of unofficial policy in the world. The statistics of mass murder in the past decade or so (at least 100,000 Hutus killed by Tutsis in Burundi, for example, or the million or three Cambodians dead under Pol Pot) somehow should make the deaths in the Palestinian camps seem less cataclysmic, less imposingly significant. Horrible, of course. But Lebanese Christians and Muslims have been trafficking in such mutual slaughter forever. Their blood feud in the past seven years has taken more than 60,000 lives...
...intellectual commune at the University of Chicago, went in and out of Government, academe and politics, and finally contended in the international corporate arena. Kissinger was a pure academic. The blue blood of the Council on Foreign Relations coursed through Lawyer Cy Vance. Ed Muskie of Maine was the pol in striped pants. And Haig was the general on parade...
...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, to smear someone with the suspicion that he has alien loyalties. The antifeminist who wishes...
Machiavelli defined his ideal prince as a head of state with a "flexible disposition, varying as fortune and circumstances dictate." Melvin Laird, the consummate congressional pol who served Richard Nixon as Secretary of Defense, lived by the rule that a wise man never says no to the inevitable and rarely encounters a situation that cannot be turned in some way to his advantage. In 1970, for example, a helicopter-borne rescue team penetrated North Viet Nam's air defenses but found that its quarry-U.S. P.O.W.s held at the Son Tay prison camp-had been moved to parts...