Word: basket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Heath expanded the "shopping-basket campaign," as Tories now called it, to warn that the whole nation might again have trouble making ends meet. Wilson's "sunshine economy" could not last, he warned. If Labor was elected, there would be another "freeze and squeeze" on wages and profits. "That's life with Labor. Four years squeeze and four months sunshine," Heath told crowds. Not on speaking terms with his rival, he zeroed in on Harold Wilson's credibility. Time and again he appealed to "those who despise the slick trick, the easy promise" to turn the Labor rascals out. Heath...
...happened, he could have played on his knees. Reed, limping noticeably, scored the first basket of the game, and the Knicks never looked back. In a virtual replay of their ball-hawking heroics in the fifth game, the New Yorkers all but ran the Lakers off the court. Hobbled though he was, Reed continually muscled Chamberlain out of position; the tallest and strongest man in the game rarely had a clear shot. The Knicks' outside men hounded the Lakers to distraction. On offense, their whirling, quick-cutting weaves time and again sprang a man loose. With Guard Walt Frazier...
...Baxter, professor of Law and chairman of the Committee, referred to a mail campaign of Harvard's ROTC graduates and stated, "Since these letters and cards [from ROTC graduates] represent serious responses by Harvard alumni, I hardly see how we can simply chuck the whole lot in the trash basket." The meeting today will take place at 1 p. m. in the Faculty Club...
ACADEMIC PRESTIGE. This is flimsily supported, says X, by such misleading designations as "lower schools," "high schools" and "higher education." X would grant academic degrees at any level, and he would shake the curriculum as vigorously as a daiquiri. Hence, at the university level, students might study basket weaving and finger painting; kindergartens and elementary schools would offer courses in demography and experimental biology. No students would be failed, a strategy that "would relieve them of having to resort to the indignity of intimidating the faculty with guns and knives...
...thermostat and broke it. He summoned a colleague, who arrived with a new thermostat that was 15 inches too short. The two procured yet another thermostat, spent an afternoon trying to install it, and after much hammering and knocking reduced the oven to what Mrs. Hutchinson calls "a basket case?literally. They carried it out in 14 pieces in a basket...