Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...really bear down and focus on the speech. He steadied all of our nerves by doing that. It was just becoming clear there were going to be budget surpluses well ahead of anyone's expectations. The Republicans in Congress were determined to use that projected surplus for a tax cut, and in our view, it would be gone before it materialized. So over a period of many months, Clinton decided that using the surplus for Social Security was the best proposal he could make. Amazingly, it didn't leak...
...applauded. And Gingrich thought about it for a second; then he stood up and applauded. And the Republicans looked at him, and looked at one another; then they stood up and applauded. At that precise moment, a trillion dollars in the budget shifted from the column marked "tax cut" to the column marked "Social Security...
Redoubtable First Lady Dolley Madison had watched for the progress of the British marauders through White House windows with a small telescope. When she saw the smoke from the fire at the Capitol, she ordered the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington cut from its frame and rolled up, put in a cart with other valuables and trundled off to Virginia. That is the image of Dolley Madison that lives on in history. But in the immediate aftermath of the sack of Washington, the press vilified both her and her husband for cowardice even as the new nation experienced...
...they laid the White House cornerstone over a brass marker. The location of stone and plate was quickly forgotten. No one is certain where it is today, despite high technology and old-fashioned dowsing rods. Truman did not find it during his renovation. And no modern President wants to cut into the sacred walls. That cornerstone, wherever it is, will lie undisturbed, one hopes, for at least another two centuries...
...beat out Republican incumbent John Ashcroft. It was too late to remove his name from the ballot, and Carnahan's Democratic successor as Governor said he would appoint Carnahan's wife Jean, 66, to the Senate seat if her late husband won. "My husband's journey was cut short," she said last week. "And for reasons we don't understand, the mantle has now fallen upon us." Some Republicans grumbled about her right to assume that mantle, but Ashcroft, gracious in defeat, said, "Missouri is a compassionate state, and I think, in a very special way, they have demonstrated their...