Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...front that has tripped up other nominees, the Ginsburgs appear blameless. Tracked down and asked to return early from a wedding in Vermont the day before Ruth was named, the Ginsburgs were met by White House lawyers at their apartment for a crash vetting. Martin was able to show records, in meticulous, Manila-folder order, of Social Security payments for everyone who had so much as touched a dishrag in their household...
...initiative has attracted many guests to the college, including former Vermont Gov. Madeleine M. Kunin, who was Radcliffe's first Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy last fall, as well as policymakers like Radcliffe Fellow at the Bunting Institute Barbara A. Hildt, a human rights advocate who established the Office of Violence Prevention in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health...
...Gopher Prairie doesn't have many young to suffocate and embitter these days. Russo's characters in the fictional town of North Bath, not far from the Vermont border, are rueful losers who, late in middle age, have known one another since grade school. They weren't all that bright then, and they don't expect much of one another now. Improvisation least of all; after several decades on adjacent bar stools, they can say one another's lines...
...those years. Or you could call them whales, grand political men (three women, no blacks) with all the flaws of the day and hardy battlers for their partisan causes. But they were by almost anybody's standards an extraordinary collection of public figures: Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell, Vermont's George Aiken, Missouri's Stuart Symington, Connecticut's Prescott Bush, Montana's Mike Mansfield, Ohio's Bob Taft, Arkansas' Bill Fulbright, Virginia's Harry Byrd...
...crusty Aiken came down from Putney, Vermont, determined to nudge his G.O.P. to the left. Immediately he confronted Ike-confidant Styles Bridges of New Hampshire. "No more middle of the road," Aiken declared, "when that is ! halfway between Grant and McKinley." Later he would counsel President Johnson on Vietnam: "Declare victory and leave...