Word: affectionately
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush's Lukewarm Welcome Though every new President gets something of a honeymoon with his constituency, George Bush's debut as Chief Executive will be marked more by cool realism than by warm affection. The TIME/CNN survey conducted by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman last week showed that the dearth of popular...
Cunning, cynical young Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) learns he has been cut out of his father's $3 million estate, which has gone to an older brother, Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), whom he did not know existed. Ray has long been institutionalized because he is an autistic savant. He has a...
Her remarkable feat is to make audiences believe at once in this woman's intelligence and her ultimate helplessness, so that they view her as her son does: with affection and even admiration despite her frustrating fecklessness, her fumbling of life's every chance. From the first scene, when she...
There was even then the unshakable feeling that Reagan had accomplished what no other President since Andrew Jackson had done: inspire enough affection for himself, and respect for his policies and presence, to anoint his successor. Jackson did it for Martin Van Buren, Reagan for George Bush.
"Any Kennedy who runs begins with a tremendous reservoir of respect and affection with a large number of voters," said James Roosevelt Jr., who also lost to Kennedy that year.