Word: rousingness
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Bradley possesses quieter charm, but he has acquired remarkable respect and influence in just one Senate term. His huge re-election margin this week will intensify talk of his White House ambitions, and any upcoming tax-reform battles will swing the limelight his way. But a New York political consultant...
Just listen. The jaunty fiddling of a Celtic folk song. The stammering voice of Melville's Billy Budd protesting his innocence. The Los Angeles Philharmonic's rousing rendition of Beethoven's Fifth. And the husky, down-home inflections of Garrison Keillor inviting one and all to drop...
As it turned out, supporters of each candidate could claim with some justification that their man had met their expectations in Kansas City. But for Mondale, meeting the expectations of his own camp simply was not enough. He needed to tap into Reagan's vast reservoir of trust and affection...
It was a moonless night in the Sicilian city of Palermo, a night filled with the sirocco, a torrid, noisy wind that blows in across the Mediterranean from the Sahara, moaning through the city's narrow streets and driving its inhabitants indoors. Few if any residents noticed as squads...
Mondale was buoyed again by a rousing response from some 3,000 United Steelworkers at their annual convention in Cleveland. He accused Reagan of neglecting the steel industry's problems with a policy that amounts to "Let it rust." Added Mondale: "Four years ago, when he was running for...