Word: puller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vice President, eager to defuse the lingering ultraconservative hostility that could block his presidential ambitions for 1988, bravely forayed into the far- right corner of the lion's den last week to honor the memory of William Loeb, the late publisher of New Hampshire's Manchester Union Leader. No puller of punches, Loeb regularly aimed sprays of front-page vitriol at those he regarded as ideologically impure, Bush prominent among them...
Said Colonel Lewis ("Chesty") Puller, battle-scarred commander of the 1st Marine Regiment: "We'll suffer heavy losses. The enemy greatly outnumbers us. They've blown the bridges and blocked the roads but we'll make it somehow...
John Birch's Belmont headquarters are quiet enough. There's a receptionist or two. The carpet has a dull, worm-out and lifeless look. McManus's cramped office is strewn with assorted books, papers, and memorabilia, and on the wall hangs a portrait of Marine General Chester Puller, a Korean War hero...