Word: basket
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...animation: administrative jobs are vacant, a teachers' contract remains to be negotiated, next year's budget has not yet been sent to Congress, and now a new superintendent evidently must be hired. Says School Budget Director Ed Winner: "If this board found Jesus Christ under a bushel basket, he would have trouble here next year...
Absent-minded on a summer afternoon, you could walk right by it without knowing. You might not have noticed the Fenway nun, black and in black habit, waiting with her radio till the game ends, when she'll get to her feet with the donation basket already full of quarters to make it look good. And you could miss the Fenway paraphernalia vendors--booths on a city street in Kenmore Square are nothing special. going left from Brookline Ave. to Lansdowne, you wouldn't know that the huge wall on your right, grimy the color of the warehouse and shop...
Those are among the most attractive financial Easter eggs that were packed into a bulging basket of tax goodies last week and delivered to the White House by members of Congress just before they left on a holiday recess. The most sweeping tax cut in U.S. history was worked out during 2% days of arduous argument by a conference committee, which struck an equitable compromise between House and Senate versions of the bill. The conferees settled on a gross tax reduction of $24.8 billion - about $8.8 billion more than President Ford had sought but $8.3 billion less than the Senate...
...this: who in LaJolla or Orange County or Pasadena plays hoop on a makeshift. peach-basket-and-dirt court behind a shotgun house? Who in sunny California dribbles his digits numb in snow, rain, gravel and mud, day in, day out, religiously, every day of the year...
...this was quite bewildering to Walter, who would ease up to the nearest basket of pretzels, slip it stealthily under his coat, and go home to share it with his wife as they watched people winning thousands of dollars on "Treasure Hunt" and trading away a new Cadillac Eldorado for the oxcart behind The Curtain That Carol is Pointing To on "Let's Make a Deal...