Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, there are brawny, oversized sluggers who step into a ring to knock each other's brains...
...like to think that if I did it over again, And, pausing, he smiles and quips, "I would have liked a championship ring...
...hard work, family, integrity and personal responsibility. Some people later took Quayle's words to be fatuous white-bread truisms -- Norman Rockwell evocations of an America long gone. But if the ideas could be considered outside the inflammatory political and racial context of the moment, they had a ring of common sense. A number of black leaders, including Jesse Jackson, might have made the same points without controversy -- and have. The family, ^ Quayle said, is important, and "the failure of our families is hurting America deeply . . . Children need love and discipline. They need mothers and fathers. A welfare check...
...have followed my efforts at all, you have heard me say a thousand times to the volunteers, "If you elected Solomon as President, he couldn't solve these problems, the wisest man who ever lived, and don't think I can alone. And unless you will stay in the ring with me after November, there's no point in doing this, because we'll all be failures...
...then, if millions of people will stay in the ring with me and assert their role as owners of the country, and if, see, when we have these town-hall presentations, Congress, the Cabinet, the leaders in that particular field, it won't be me telling the people. It's not a fireside chat. We will really be explaining this to the people. Congress will be in the middle...