Word: puts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reagan calls the national campaign trail the "mashed potato circuit," and he has been wandering along it for 15 years. Says he: "I have a feeling now that I don't get on planes. I get up in the morning and put them on, like a pair of pants. I wear them. In show business we used to say that if you don't sing or dance, you wind up an after-dinner speaker...
...years" if he confessed all his past crimes. Said he: "On the waterfront, no business is completely honest." Montella even explained how to persuade a reluctant bar owner to sign over his business. "You take a hair blower," he instructed the rapt court, "get it hot and put it on his neck until he signs. He'll sign...
...cease-fire talks, which began last Friday, raised some divisive issues that could still spoil the conference. Carrington put forth a proposal that could stop the fighting in seven to ten days. It calls for the strict separation of the rival armies and the confining of the Patriotic Front forces to designated assembly points within the country. But the question of the guerrillas' exact legal standing during the cease-fire and election campaign, left ambiguous in the Carrington proposal, sparked a bitter verbal exchange between members of the rival delegations. Following the formal negotiating session, Salisbury's military...
...aristocratic, flippant manner that makes him free of inhibitions or a sense of inadequacy." Though he has never held elective office, the trim, impeccably tailored Carrington is regarded as a consummate politician. He has more governmental experience than anyone else in the Thatcher Cabinet-"more than all of us put together," says a colleague. It has often been said that Carrington could have occupied 10 Downing Street had he chosen to. In 1964 friends urged him to renounce his title in order to become eligible for election to the House of Commons and prime ministership. "Why should I want...
...selling the Foreign Office views where they really count: in the Cabinet. Says one Tory colleague: "Nobody can challenge him on foreign policy; and that includes Margaret Thatcher." After his deft handling of the Zimbabwe Rhodesia talks, Carrington's reputation stands higher than ever. As Owen graciously put it last week: "He is the man who did it, and I congratulate...