Word: trait
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their 188-year history in America, very few du Ponts have pursued elective office. Public service -- or, as du Pont describes it, "giving something back" -- was expressed through quiet philanthropy. Today, Delaware's du Pont plants are liberally matched with du Pont libraries, museums and foundations. If one trait unites the 2,000 far-flung du Pont descendants, it is their sober quest for privacy. They have spent two centuries perfecting their seclusion from the prying public...
...combative leader who reminds them of Reagan -- or so the candidates think. Reagan's longtime pollster, Richard Wirthlin, cautions that the muscular approach does not work automatically. "People always rerun the last successful election," Wirthlin explains. "Now candidates are trying to bring forward what was a very important trait for Reagan...
Quite apart from the subject of sex, the procession of Presidents after Kennedy has included men of rather peculiar and divided psyche. Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter were personalities utterly different from one another, but they all shared, to some degree, an odd, self-thwarting trait. Each became his own worst enemy...
...buried anger, maybe, that ricocheted around in Hart, a dybbuk of compulsion. One sensed in him a territory of ignorance about himself. On the evidence of recent weeks, Hart has moments when he is overtaken by a denial of reality, a trait that might be dangerous in the Oval Office...
...University--and a local barbershop--are used against him in the majority opinion. Who better to address Class Day than someone who used his Harvard education to try to bring about change in the world? Next, the majority charges him with campaigning. This proves the Duke is ambitious, a trait that should not set him apart from a crowd of Harvard seniors. The majority might trust an intelligent audience not to be brainwashed. We think we can discount the possibility of the Class Day crowd abandoning Tercentenary Theater en masse for a round of New Hampshire campaigning. If Dukakis launches...