Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Four-term congressmen Symms is the essence of earthy politics; he hands out his wife's apple receipes as he tours the state. Indeed, the apple, or rather the bite out of it signifying reduced taxes and clean fiscal living, has become his symbol. To retaliate, Church has become the consummate Idahoan in his television ads--the New Republic reports that his favorite pose of late is toting a shotgun while walking along a ranch fence in sheepskin jacket and cowboy...
...himself: "A government that would try to draft (young people) would be little better than a kidnapper," he states. When they talk about the ideal society, they're apt to point to Espiritu Santo, a few square miles of sand that an American businessmen tried to turn into a bite-sized tax shelter earlier this year. If you leave yourself open, the tendency to analogy can overwhelm: "So you can steal (tax) the products of my body if you need them for something? Then why can't you rape me if you need my body? What's the difference...
...when they both appeared at a dinner honoring Al Smith, the former Democratic Governor of New York, that is an annual political ritual sponsored by the Catholic Archdiocese of New York. Reagan was relaxed, poking light-hearted fun at himself and wisely refraining from any cracks with a partisan bite, as required by the ground rules of the dinner. Quipped the Governor during an eight-minute speech: "There is no foundation to the rumor that I am the only one here who was at the original Al Smith dinner." (This year's is the 35th annual affair.) By contrast...
...than the issues. Outfitted in a brown suede jacket and cowboy boots, the stocky, cherubic-looking fruitgrower hands out his wife's apple recipes to voters who respond warmly to his hearty greeting. The apple, in fact, is his campaign symbol. In past years, he would take a bite and ask: "Wouldn't you like to take a bite out of government?" His TV ads portray him as a down-home boy driving a tractor, while a voice-over sings: "I was born to be an Idahoan at heart...
...seafront, Thatcher was cheered ecstatically by the 5,000 delegates, as Tory left and right put aside their differences. The right, if it held sway, would have her cut public spending much more severely. The government has already cut nearly $20 billion from public spending and is planning to bite deeply again next year. Sir Raymond Pennock, spokesman for the Confederation of British Industry, argued in a long meeting with Thatcher that "industry has got itself efficient. It has shouldered massive reduction in jobs. Government must do the same...