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Carter ridiculed Reagan for wanting to "throw the SALT II treaty in the waste basket" and defended his administration's record of working for nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament while maintaining a strong defense...
...humanities and its indifference to anything that could be construed as modern. The Advocate rejected his poems and cut him from its comp. T.S. Eliot later described the Advocate of that time toThe Paris Review as an arena for literary brawling, in which "everyone threw his poems into a basket, and then they held a round-robin to see who could say the most sarcastic things about the other man's work." After two years in Cambridge, Lowell transferred to Kenyon College. His parents, furious that he would not return to Uncle Abbott's school, sent him to a psychiatrist...
...dinner at gourmet shop takeout counters. At Pasta, Pasta, Pasta in Los Angeles, a family of four can walk out with a freshly made lasagna dinner for $8.95. A comparable meal in a restaurant could cost $50. Le Marmiton in Santa Monica sells provisions for the perfect picnic. Its Basket for Two Lovers, for example, includes cold sirloin in aspic and a salad of mushrooms in olive oil, garlic and lemon juice...
...ball in addition to shooting it and retrieving it, Cowens was adding a new facet to the Celtics' offense by making them truly a five-man threat in their patterned passing game. He contributed to the offense with equal skill from the top of the key or under the basket, and was a recognized leader on a team with such pros as John Havilick and Jo Jo White...
...Gaulle from 1958 to 1969, companies were, in effect, forced to borrow from the government-dominated banks rather than raise capital on the stock market. Referring to the Bourse's principal trading circle by nickname, De Gaulle declared icily: "France's policy is not made in the Basket." Stockbroker Antoine Durant des Aulnois recalls that being a dealer during the Gaullist era was "like selling corset ribs at a time when women didn't wear corsets any more...