Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...controversial nuclear plant at Seabrook, Durkin favors coal conversion--to a refined brand of coal that meets Environmental Protection Agency standards. He has not shied from maverick stands, and is on the progressive cutting edge on many issues. His campaign handout says, "John Durkin is tough--he's blunt...
...Durkin is blunt, his opponent, Republican Warren Rudman, is downright ingenuous. The beneficiary of vigorous efforts by the National Conservative Political Action Committee, Rudman has watched his incumbent adversary crudely portrayed as a pro-busing, anti-prayer buffoon. One NCPAC leaflet has Durkin teaching a class of children--two of the children are white, with books on their neatly ordered desks. The two Black children are unflatteringly depicted; their desks are messy and bookless. John Durkin, the leaflet states, casts "anti-child" and "anti-parent" votes...
...That blunt question from a Nashville high school student to the President of the U.S. last week aptly summed up the conundrum of Jimmy Carter's floundering campaign. From the outset, the President and his advisers had meant to make Ronald Reagan the man the issue in the race. Instead, with only three weeks to go, it was Carter who was the issue, and he had only himself to blame. Time and again, Carter's strident personal attacks had crossed the line of propriety for a presidential campaign. When he did it again last week, charging that Reagan...
...race is probably the least costly Senate contest in the country. Each candidate plans to spend only about $350,000. Thus the outcome may turn largely on the candidates' campaign styles. Rudman is jovial and smooth, a "pussycat," as one campaign follower says. By contrast, Durkin is blunt and brusque; even Wife Pat concedes that "John isn't the smoothest character in town." But this is no handicap in New Hampshire, where voters prefer their politicians to be flinty...
...Blunt-mannered Helen Delich Bentley, 56, wife of an antiques dealer, covered the waterfront for 16 years as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun. Her salty language and dukes-up style endeared her to dock workers. She once punched a stevedore in a bar when he compared her nose to a ski jump. Her expletives-undeleted report from the tanker Manhattan, during its 1969 voyage through the Northwest Passage, caused her to be banned from using the ship's radio...