Word: swooner
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...sizable opposition that despises him with extraordinary passion. Meanwhile, he lacks even a medium-size cadre of genuine enthusiasts. He doesn't have a single reliable journalistic hagiographer, though Reagan had a dozen. Indeed, do you know a single American citizen of any profession who is a real Clinton swooner, like the millions who swooned for Reagan? There are a few, but most of them work...
...added, "Wait until you see some of the men Sunday," when the race would be later in the day, and the cloud cover figured to be less. Aside from Pheidippides, the gasping Greek who established the marathon distance in his farewell appearance as a messenger, the most famous Olympic swooner before Andersen-Schiess was, of course, a man: Dorando ("Wrong Way") Pietri, an Italian who mislaid the finish line in 1908 in London...
There is a considerable difference, however, between the coleopteran flight of these four English boys and the phenomenon of Elvis Presley or Frank Sinatra in his swooner phase. Presley made his pelvis central to his act, and the screams of his admirers were straight from the raunch. Sinatra's Adam's appie bobbed in Morse code, and no lass misread the message...
...presented him with a complete paratrooper's outfit and honorary membership in the division. Johnny is especially pleased about the G.I. reaction: "I used to be afraid the real soldiers wouldn't like me," he says, "but they don't seem to mind me being a swooner." The band's publicity-minded program director, Warrant Officer Paul Dudley, says with boding triumph: "Sinatra is apt to push; The Creamer just bides his time...
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