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...McCarthy. Though Idaho is a conservative state in which Republicans outnumber Democrats, Church scored an upset victory. Arriving on Capitol Hill at 32, with the cherubic face and beatific smile of a choirboy, he was often mistaken for a Senate page. His earnest oratory won him the sobriquet of "Senator Sunday School." He proved to be industrious, competent and meticulously attentive to Idaho's interests. He was returned three times to the Senate...
...other hand, some might say Carter, whose relentless gopher's grin and Joe Hardy-like rise from obscurity have earned him the recent sobriquet "The Devil's Candidate," was only going to touch base with the dark spirits who have granted him his mortal popularity...
...trench-coated agents had zeroed in on such notorious criminals as John Dillinger, "Baby Face" Nelson, and "Pretty Boy" Floyd. When operatives cornered George "Machine Gun" Kelly at his Memphis hideout in 1933, Kelly said he surrendered rather than be killed by "G-men," a sobriquet that has adhered to agents in movies and on cereal box tops through the years. In the '30s Hoover was portrayed as a dedicated, hard-working loner who approved wiretaps only in matters of life and death. Hoover's picture was again on the cover of TIME in August of 1949, when...
...biggest pimple" and "the domedest thing y'ever saw." Cynics set store by the fact that the fast-food company that will operate 40 hot-dog stands in the Superdome calls its piece de resistance, a sausage-and-French-bread sandwich, "Pig in a Poke"-a sobriquet that many seem to think fits the Superdome itself. Others, like Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards, prefer to think of it as "the greatest structure of its kind ever envisioned by mankind." One of its throatiest boosters has been New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu, a canny politician who calls the edifice "an exercise...
...made Saraiva de Carvalho the fastest rising star in Portugal. Still, he has his detractors. Spínola is reported to have once said that Saraiva de Carvalho "should never have got above sergeant." Many Portuguese regard him as a not-too-bright, womanizing playboy-hence his unflattering sobriquet "O tolo" (the brainless...