Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SPEECH. How the triumphant candidate accepts the nomination of his party is always billed by his strategists as not only the kickoff of the campaign but the most important speech of the entire presidential race. Well, sometimes it is all that-and sometimes...
Rightists ride triumphant, but the nominee must widen his appeal to win Imagine this colloquy among Republican leaders as they gather around the celestial TV set to watch their party's convention. Theodore Roosevelt: It's a bully sight! Calvin Coolidge: Too expensive. Mark Hanna: Not much excitement. I can't see a single smoke-filled room. Henry Cabot Lodge: I'm worried about the westward tilt of the party. The East always supplied the intellectual leadership. T.R.: If I had not gone West . . . Coolidge: What's all this talk about winning the blue-collar vote? America's business...
...abortions, a state does not either, so most of these states will probably stop providing funding. Nine other states, most prominently New York, have chosen to pay for abortions for the poor even if Washington will not reimburse them. But free abortions will come under attack from triumphant right-to-life advocates in those states...
...style that was distinctively his own, deeply rooted in his native Maine. After Berlin it took him nearly 20 years of floundering among styles and milieus (though his technical skill sustains even his most differentiated works) and a return to New England to recover that authority with the triumphant and unique landscapes of his last ten years. Hartley was an American original who should never have left home...
Ronald Reagan has based his triumphant campaign partly on both his criticism of Jimmy Carter's "weakness" as Commander in Chief and his own promise that he would be tougher in the conduct of diplomacy and defense. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott examines the outlines of the Reagan foreign policy that is emerging in the campaign...