Word: ronald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ronald Reagan allowed himself a few minutes of gaiety, rather soberly marking his North Carolina victory with orange sherbet and chocolate ice cream aboard his Boeing 727. Then he canceled nearly all of his scheduled campaign appearances and withdrew to his Pacific Palisades home overlooking Los Angeles to prepare for a desperate campaign spectacular: a 30-minute nationally televised speech this week. By attacking Ford's diplomacy and defense policy, and by calling for new national leadership, Reagan hopes to rejuvenate his campaign, replenish his treasury and restore his flagging chances for the nomination. Says Campaign Manager John Sears...
...most famous movie role, Ronald Reagan, as the strep-stricken Notre Dame halfback George Gipp, insisted on going to Illinois to play the Big Game against Northwestern. He made the do-or-die try, and sure enough-in a scene worth three wet handkerchiefs-he died soon afterward...
Woven through the allegations is a too-familiar pattern of the Washington buddy system that Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter have condemned all along the campaign trail. The official to whom Callaway took his plea for a reversal of the Forest Service ruling was J. Phil Campbell, a close friend and fellow Georgian; indeed Callaway had recommended him as Under Secretary of Agriculture. Campbell admits that he urged reconsideration of the Crested Butte expansion. The reversal followed. By strange coincidence, the key decision maker in the Forest Service's reversal of its earlier decision was Jimmy Wilkins...
Joseph Grandmaison, a fellow of the Institute of Politics, said former California governor Ronald Reagan's 52 to 46 per cent victory over President Ford was "desperately needed. Had Reagan not won, he would have had to close shop," Grandmaison said...
...been too good, too real, I won't get mushy. Let's get 'em" LaZebnik said, hugging in a semicircle, the actors chanting their ritual send-off; behinds wriggling, they sang "pop, pop, pop, pop you all night." Some exchanged lipstick-red carnations. Randy Howze, who played the whining Ronald, kissed the producer leaving a sticky red mouth on her cheek. "Are we ready to go--let's get this show off the road--this is the last time--I'm getting so sad" and they filed backstage to the dark cramped wings. A nightly Hulaballoo frug to the overture...