Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...monogrammed electric kettle for the royal cup of China tea, her own kid lavatory seat and an attache case filled with the homeopathic remedies that her granny reared her on. An ever present handbag (she would sooner go outside without shoes than leave it be hind) is her security blanket: it gives her something to do with her hands and holds her glasses and makeup...
Massachusetts is the first state to impose blanket restrictions on such investments. Both Michigan and Connecticut have some provisions regulating the state government's purchase of these securities. Sen Jack Backman (D-Brookline), one of the bill's sponsors, said this week that similar legislation has been introduced in 15 other states...
...governor raised questions about the financial impact if S.B.984 became law. He said that the blanket divestment would cost the Commonwealth about $15 million by selling quality stock...
...Herr to store several boxes of cauliflower in a freezer in their garage. When she did not return, her sister became alarmed and notified neighbors, who called the police. After a three-hour search of the neighborhood, a state trooper found Huyard's partly nude body under a blanket in the bed room of the Herrs' adopted son Jimmy. Bound and gagged, the 90-lb. woman had been suffocated and stabbed 16 times...
...dawn announcement in Pretoria, General Constand Viljoen, chief of the South African Defense Force, explained that the raid, unofficially named "Operation Blanket," had been a pre-emptive strike against A.N.C. militants who had come to Lesotho over the past few months. According to Viljoen, the A.N.C. members were planning attacks in South Africa against political leaders in the black "homelands" of Transkei and Ciskei. South African defense officials displayed a rocket launcher, rifles and some grenades of Communist-bloc origin that they said had been captured in the raid...