Word: slots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After the Clintons moved into town, Billy tried out the slot machines (confiscated in various political campaigns and held by a compliant police force until the zealots had moved on). A natural stinginess soon made him give up on machines that gobbled his money and gave so little back. Like the other boys, he called up Maxine, the best-known madam, to tie up the line she used for customers. "We did it mainly to hear her cuss -- we never heard a woman use language like that...
...teamwork. In April 1987, when she learned that her husband was making plans for his unsuccessful White House bid of the following year, Tipper reportedly hit the roof: he hadn't let her in on the news. Gore's decision to accept Clinton's offer of the vice-presidential slot was arrived at differently, after much family deliberation. "Everyone liked the idea that the campaign would last three and a quarter months," she says precisely, if a bit optimistically. This time, a lengthy bid for the presidency, which might have taken a year or more, would have been too much...
...months when he took his "Crusade" to the people. The lofty rhetoric, repeated from town to town, took on a road-show tinniness. His act verged on self-caricature. Yet enough appeal remained for Robert Taft, who was seeking the Republican presidential nomination, to offer him the vice-presidential slot. When MacArthur said he did not want to waste his time presiding over the Senate, Taft desperately offered to create a special role for him as overseer of military matters, his "deputy Commander in Chief." MacArthur said he would consider that. Taft was still negotiating with MacArthur as Taft...
...second year in a row, Harvard ranks No. 1 in U.S. News and World Report's annual list of America's best colleges. Harvard is also rated No. 1 in "academic reputation," up from last year's No. 2 slot...
Parker played most of the year in the fourth singles position and in the second doubles slot with freshman Agata Passent...