Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conjecture over second place rose to a roar, Jackson realized that it was a damaging distraction as well as a tacit admission that the brass ring was beyond his reach. Dukakis even kidded Jackson Friday night during their first one-on-one debate. When a questioner asked about Jackson's interest in the vice-presidential nomination, Dukakis ostentatiously stage-whispered, "Are you interested? Talk to me later." Jackson responded with a playful elbow...
...Barre was not the only candidate to try. In a campaign that has heavily emphasized style over substance, Gaullist imagery cropped up often enough, as it has in past contests, to give an eerie ring of arrived truth to Charles de Gaulle's imperious prophecy that "every Frenchman was, is or one day will be a Gaullist." Mitterrand, an opponent of De Gaulle for the ten years of the general's presidency, also presented himself as an above-the-fray candidate, rarely mentioning the word Socialist and allowing himself to be described by Socialist Party Chairman Lionel Jospin...
...alongside their Bic lighters, their coffee thermoses, their good-luck coffee mugs, their plastic cups of French fries, and their little signs that indicate what bus group they are with. They are mostly silent, hunched over their sheets of cards. Occasionally a cheer will go up and cowbells will ring when someone yells "Bingo!" They scurry up, to a smattering of applause, to the platform in the center of the room to get their cash. If they don't scurry fast enough the other players hoot at them to hurry so they can get on with the game...
...mystery of Bechstein's spiritual state. Which life will become his model, that of his father--a lord of the underworld--or of Cleveland--an insouciant motorcylist? The two sit on opposite ends of Bechstein's spirtual seesaw. His father, head of a numbers racket and prostitution ring, is willing to forget the past in order to enjoy the present, and the world be damned. Cleveland, who would like to get involved in the same underworld life, hangs out at the Cloud Factory--the name he assigns to one of Pittsburgh's omnipresent smokestacks--his thoughts often floating far above...
...just before the Adams House resident belted out the lines "Marry Me," he lept off the stage and presented his fiance with flowers and a ring. The Sanders audience burst into applause. His fiance, Currier House resident Jennifer W. Durham '90 accepted his offer...