Word: syntax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Daley denied making the statement. His supporters say the candidate, who is well known for garbling his syntax, slipped and inserted an extraneous word that sounded like "what," not "white...
...leader and a group of U.S. Jews issued a joint "clarifying" statement; or on Dec. 13, when Arafat delivered an impassioned appeal for peace negotiations to a special U.N. General Assembly session in Geneva. Each time the cotton in Arafat's mouth prevented the U.S. from hearing the precise syntax it wanted. But on Dec. 14, in a frantically arranged press conference to delineate the P.L.O. position one more time, Arafat finally got the linguistic formula right...
...next President has always resisted definition. His career has been marked by ideological gyrations. His often tangled syntax sometimes suggests a lack of inner clarity. One of the rare glimpses of the "quiet man" beneath the political veneer came in his soaring address to the Republican Convention. But rather than continuing the process of self-definition, Bush in the fall campaign relied on angry scripts, as he launched a fusillade of demeaning attacks against the hapless Michael Dukakis. Was this red-meat rhetoric reflective of the real George Bush? On election night, Bush offered the broad hint that...
...announcing his purchase, Trump called the shuttle "unique," and with characteristic syntax and bravado vowed to make it more so. "I want the planes to be beautiful," he said, "totally renovated and as nice as any in the air." At the moment, argues Alan Taylor, an image consultant to 28 airlines, the shuttle lacks a sense of style. "In the Trump name there's a certain magic," he says. "This basic transportation product can borrow some of that luster, that halo of success...
NEVADA. The press secretary to Nevada Republican Senator Chic Hecht recently observed that his boss is ignored by Senate colleagues except for the times when they are ridiculing him for his syntax-mangling style. With a billing like that from his own publicist, Hecht obviously has problems in his race against Democratic Governor Richard Bryan...