Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole program can become totally discredited, If too many politicians grab hold of it, it becomes nothing more than a big pork-barrel." The possibility of failure also Moot: "There is an immediate danger of 'Overpromise.'" It would be more than demoralizing, he says, "to work in employment programs with 100 kids and then be able to place only 10 per cent of them jobs...
...than Goldwater votes, Rusher answered, "Given all the pressures to defect, I think the 27 million had an unusually high proportion of the gold as opposed to the dross, contrary to Hugh Scott." He smiled, pleased with the pun, and continued, "They would have sunk their hands on a barrel of rattlesnakes to pull the Goldwater lever...
...Barrels & Breeding. Many of the opportunities are new; others have been around but are just being discovered by the mass of speculators. Investment in Scotch whisky, once highly specialized, has become so widespread that the Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced that it will move to impose controls on it. Investors buy the raw whisky by the barrel, wait while it ages for three years or longer, often collect a 100% profit when it is finally sold to bottlers. For $1,000, those who want to be angels can buy a 1% share in the North American rights...
...longstanding feud between Democratic Governor Pat Brown and Democratic Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh. Roosevelt has charged that there is a "sinister alliance between the political machines of Big Daddy [Unruh] and Little Daddy [Yorty]" which "must be stopped and not allowed to take over city government, lock, stock and barrel." Yorty accuses Brown of helping Roosevelt. Brown denies it-sort of. "I have said time and time again that I intend to remain neutral in the race for mayor of Los Angeles," he says. "But I might add that Yorty is making it awfully difficult...
...encreased, so our men decreased. All the powder to the last barrel! was now spent, fortie men slaine, and the most part of the rest hurt. Sir Richard being shot into the bodie, was againe shot into the head. There remained no hope, no supply of men, or weapons; the Mastes all beaten over boord, her upper worke rased...