Word: telling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston creates a college center for sports," Tomassoni says. "You tell me that a kid wouldn't like the chance to play in front of 16,000 screaming fans at the Garden...
...then he made the worst political mistake of his life--he told the truth. Mondale told the convention and the nation, "Mr. Reagan will raise taxes. So will I. He won't tell you. I just did." His resounding defeat in November, largely attributable to that pledge, reaffirmed the sad fact that honesty with the American electorate is political suicide...
...just liked the sense of humor here. I think that was the deciding factor, to tell you the truth," Ogilvie says. "I went to see a speech that was given to pre-frosh by Dean Moses and a few other speakers, and it was just really clever. I enjoyed the humor so much, and the only type of humor that I could have compared it to at that time was British humor. I enjoyed that as a kid so much and never got to see any of it in West Virginia...
...Dukakis' ad, which features an eerie close-up of Panama's General Noriega, the Governor asserts he wants "to see a real war, not a phony war, against drug and alcohol dependency. How can we tell our children to say no to drugs when we have an Administration that paid $200,000 a year to a drug- peddling dictator from Panama?" Gore's commercials, made by the veteran video warrior David Garth, emphasize that he may speak softly but he carries a big stick. Standing in front of an outdoor basketball court, Gore asserts, "We need a President...
...Well," said Speakes from New York City, "if I get criticized for writing the truth, so be it. I said I was going to write an honest book. I told about the mistakes of others, and I thought it was right to tell about mine...