Word: caustically
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...caustic reference was to Marshall D. Shulman, considered a moderate on Soviet issues while serving in the Carter administration as a special adviser to the secretary of state on Soviet affairs, one position Pipes is frequently mentioned...
...Midwest and Northeast. But in the 1980 campaign his appeal seems to be based at least equally on his personal integrity and low-key style. An easy-going politician who is respected by liberals and neo-conservatives alike, Mondale has to a degree counterbalanced Carter's aloof and sometimes caustic personality. As one politician noted, "Mondale simply has no negative constituency." And in an election where many of the ballots cast will be negative votes, this is seen as an important attribute...
Buchwald and tape recorder were "on" a week ago, when he kept a Kennedy School Forum audience chuckling for an hour by casting caustic, comedic comments at some of his favorite targets--the presidential candidates...
...when Barry Goldwater, looking frail after a hip operation, approached the microphones to reminisce about 1964. When the delegates' roars of "We want Barry" subsided, he quipped: "Thank you, folks. Can I accept the nomination?" John Connally also drew enthusiastic cheers and applause by quoting Senator Edward Kennedy's caustic comments on Carter's economic and foreign policies. Said Connally: "We agree with Senator Kennedy that we need a new President." New York Congressman Jack Kemp, a leading proponent of the deep tax cuts that Reagan is urging, drew an equally rousing reception when he predicted a "tidal wave" Republican...
...their devil was manmade. Heavy rains turned the former canal into a quagmire of mud, puddled here and there by iridescent pools that fumed and bubbled. The landfill's topsoil began to wash away, revealing Hooker's metal casks, some of them badly corroded and leaking their caustic contents. Says one state environmental official: "It was like a Hieronymus Bosch painting; it really looked like hell...