Word: wanly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many candidates to cuddle with Perot. Since February his favorable rating has declined, from 58% then to 51% now, probably because his harsh attacks on Clinton's policies and persona make him seem too partisan to some people. But Perot's numbers remain strong compared with Clinton's wan ratings. Many voters are aware of Perot's foibles -- wobbling on issues and overreacting to criticism -- but they like his anti-Washington message anyway. As a potential presidential candidate, Perot has actually pulled ahead of Clinton. In the survey, 46% said they would be very likely or somewhat likely to vote...
That was good enough for Bill Clinton. Looking slightly wan, his voice a bit hoarse, a few minutes late and virtually unrehearsed, Clinton addressed the country from the Oval Office on Saturday evening. He described the plot against Bush and the efforts to confirm it. Then he announced that he had sent cruise missiles into Baghdad three hours before. He at one point felt it necessary to give a legalistic nod to the action, and so invoked Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, which deals with self-defense. But for his real message he reached back to an older...
...Goldberg's mission in life to redeem improbable situations. It's what she did so profitably last summer in Sister Act, and she's awfully good at it. There's something about her -- a gritty, down-to-earth straightforwardness -- that tends to promise some realization of our wan hopes that potentially explosive circumstances can be defused -- at least for the running time of a movie...
...through the minefield, Aspin is the one -- provided his health holds up. The Secretary, 54, suffers from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a heart malady causing shortness of breath and dizziness. Nine days after doctors installed a pacemaker in his chest, the irrepressible Pentagon chief was back in form last Saturday. Looking wan but energetic, the Defense Secretary showed his mastery of detail as he briefed reporters on the Administration's proposed 1994 defense budget of $263.4 billion, down $10 billion from the current year. The budget is the first installment in Clinton's proposal to slash a total of $124 billion from...
...Photographs also enabled Sickert to produce, in 1936, what is probably the last portrait of a British royal personage that can claim serious aesthetic merit: Edward VIII, emerging from a limousine, clutching his black fur busby like a teddy bear. The monarch, who was shortly to abdicate, looks remarkably wan and shifty, and it's hard not to imagine that in this picture the Servant of Abraham was granted a moment of prophecy...