Word: scrapper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newspeople after the first congressional leadership meeting with Bush, "Very harmonious. No dissent. This is the first day of the honeymoon, and it was very hopeful and exciting, just like a honeymoon." Question from the edge: "Come on, Congressman, when do you get tough?" Slow smile over the little scrapper's face and a glint in his bright, crafty eyes. "When he gets specific, we'll get tough. About budget time." Interpretation: if Coelho couldn't fight, he'd go back to California...
...holds-barred campaigns. Although both women come from ethnic, working-class backgrounds, "we are as different as two people can be," says Chavez, 39, a cool Hispanic American who is married and makes much of being the mother of three sons. Mikulski, 50, is single, a self-styled scrapper with the sturdy perseverance of a tugboat. She sharply turns aside comments that she does not "look senatorial." Says the candidate: "A lot of Americans, black or white or female, are always told that they don't look the part. It's one of the oldest code words...
Alice is a full-time scrapper, never at a loss, even when she stands silently glaring at Ralph after he has done something typically dumb or outrageous. Many of her comebacks refer to his weight. Early on, Gleason discovered one of the first truths of comedy: a fat man is almost always funnier than a thin one. "This is probably the biggest thing I ever got into," says Ralph of one of his moneymaking schemes. "The biggest thing you ever got into," responds Alice, "was your pants." Afraid that she will skimp on dinner to save money, he says, "Then...
...Thayer is forced to step down, the Administration would lose a redoubtable scrapper in the struggle against soaring Pentagon spending. He had challenged the costly proposals of Navy Secretary John Lehman, who argues strenuously for a 600-ship Navy. In Thayer, a tough, blunt former naval aviator and test pilot, Lehman had an adversary of substance. This fall Lehman complained that he was "sick and tired of spending 98% of my time up on the Hill undoing the damage that senior Defense officials are doing to the President's budget." By "senior officials," Lehman meant Thayer, who reportedly responded...
Safire insists that conservatism is not a "troglodytic monolith" and that "fortunately there will be enough internal fighting" to satisfy a scrapper of his style. Just how brutish such fighting can get can be seen in a column by Rowland Evans and Robert Novak that deserves to be studied in journalism schools. Never ruminative like Will, they are columnists who air their opinions in the guise of reporting. The story they were reporting was simple enough: Reagan's new Defense Secretary, Caspar Weinberger, wanted as his deputy Frank Carlucci, who had worked in Government with him before. Right-wingers...