Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rejected nominee Robert Bork, Fisher says, could neither alter nor hide his ideals because of an extensive paper trail. Souter successfully dodged most controversy because he did not have a history of scholarship or rulings on substantive issues. Thomas, he says, is caught some-where in the middle...
Paul E. Tsongas got an early start on the 1992 presidential campaign trail, but he's still a Greek-Democrat-from-Massachusetts. That wouldn't be so terrible, if it weren't for that other Greek-Democrat-from-Massachusetts, Michael S. Dukakis...
Bleary-eyed loyalty is nothing new to Allis, though. Colleagues know Sam best for his engaging wit and his tendency to immerse himself in a good story. While on the presidential campaign trail with Walter Mondale in 1984, Allis grew a beard, overate on the campaign plane and "became somewhat Orson Wellesian," recalls a comrade. In other phases, he's been lean and mean. "Sam is indefatigable, and his enthusiasms are boundless," observes George Russell, who edited this week's cover package. "He throws himself at things. That's one of the reasons he's so good at what...
...then. John Milledge was one of the first black officers on the police force, but he was only allowed to patrol in black areas, could only question and arrest black suspects. When he was shot, the rest of the police force searched the neighborhood, asked questions, but eventually the trail went cold. Some people say that for all these years, most folks over a certain age in Overtown knew where Strachan was. But the police never found...
...Some of the names," Wilkinson writes, stone on stone, "are Iron Bark House, Springwater House, Killer Whale House, Killer Whale Chasing the Seal House, Killer Whale Tooth House, Log Jam House, Mountain Valley House, On Top of the Fort House, End of the Trail House, Middle of the Village House, Bear House, Raven House, and Raven Bones House...