Word: put
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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While some of Young's supporters blamed racism for his defeat, most observers gave more credit to Miller's single-minded support of a state lottery; Young wanted to put the idea to a referendum. Young's critics charged that he had started his campaign too late. The crowning irony: Young, who first gained fame as an aide to Martin Luther King Jr., did not pay enough attention to black voters, losing some to Miller and failing to inspire a large black turnout...
...nomination to Ronald Reagan, Bush shucked off his shoes, loosened his tie, grabbed a beer and took a quiet moment to calmly assess the job he coveted. "You work your ass off, get credit for stuff you're barely involved in and none at all for things you've put together behind the scenes. Domestic problems drag you down and nag all the time. You're up in the polls and down and then up again. But sooner or later something major happens, something abroad that only we ((the U.S.)) can do something about. Then you show...
...always giving Bush guff for his first-name strategy with world leaders," says an Administration official. "But then he calls Tokyo and gets Kaifu to go along with the oil embargo, a step that may not be in Japan's self-interest. To say we were surprised is to put it mildly." Equally impressive was the President's engineering of United Nations sanctions against Iraq -- a delicious irony given Bush's repeated swipes at Dukakis for naively believing in the U.N.'s usefulness...
...each day I put off reading. No matter where I was, though--running from second to third base on the softball field, being yelled at by my tentmates to get seconds on chicken wingdings--that list was always on the back of my mind. Even now, long after my days as a camper, I still, for the life of me, cannot read in the summer. Oh, sure, I put away a few books or plays, but I cannot really read. I cannot truly achieve the feeling that I never ever want to leave my cozy chair until I finish...
Maybe that explains why I never could manage to read those seven books and chose instead to put down fake titles on the sheet...