Word: stump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PlayerG Gl A Pts Pen P M Kyle McDonough 32 27 28 55 24 5 6 Ian Boyce 29 15 26 41 13 26 Jim Larkin 32 16 18 34 3 6 Jim Walsh 32 13 19 32 15 38 Ricker Love 30 9 20 29 10 20 Duke Stump 26 12 16 28 14 28 Dan Lambert 32 11 10 21 5 10 John LeClair 18 9 12 21 20 40 Jerry Tarrant 32 3 18 21 26 52 Marc Lebreux 32 7 10 17 17 32 David Browne 30 4 10 14 11 22 Jim Fernholz...
Vermont, on the other hand, could find itself at a slight disadvantage--several of its key players are still out with injuries. Absent from the lineup for the second straight weekend will be Duke Stump, Bill Butler and John LeClair...
George Bush is not opposed to all killing, especially when talk of frying people can help pull him out of the political fire. During the campaign, he scored big points with his tough stance on capital punishment. He supported it on the stump, in the debates, and through anticrime TV ads trumpeting his belief in the death penalty. The ads harped on Michael Dukakis' opposition to capital punishment, a position Dukakis was not shy about proclaiming anyway. The death penalty is a useful issue for any politician who believes that voltage wins votes. It works in a campaign...
...humor has served her well in politics. In her campaign stump speech, she regularly poked fun at herself, telling audiences that, if recognized at all, she is confused with Mrs. George Shultz. After the Ferraro crack, she opted for an immediate apology and told reporters that "the poet laureate has retired." Though public criticism of her hair, weight and wrinkles have hurt her, she has turned such remarks to her advantage. After her hair turned white in her early 30s, she began dyeing it "warm brown," although it was a nuisance for someone who swam frequently and shampooed every...
...stump, the messenger is as entertaining as his message is fervid. Fuller, 53, is an Ichabod Crane look-alike who is incessantly joking, cajoling, commoving, pressing, pleading for Habitat. He leans and swaggers, hunches his shoulders, pokes his head and forms grandfather spiders with his lean hands, which are constantly aswirl. He still crows about the sales pitch he made to former President Jimmy Carter: "I said to him, 'Sir, are you interested in Habitat for Humanity, or are you very interested?' " Since 1984 Carter has been one of Habitat's celebrity supporters, along with Bob Hope, Paul Newman...