Word: blanketly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Embarrassments. During the week-long debate, Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore laid down the only blanket denunciation of the bill, claimed that it was "the embodiment of fiscal folly" and "unconscionable" in its tax reduction "for the already rich." Yet despite his vow to try to scuttle the bill, Gore's only victory was to tax Americans living abroad more heavily. Passed 47-41, his proposal would require U.S. citizens living overseas more than three years to pay full tax on all income over $6,000; they now enjoy an annual $35,000 exemption. Those abroad 17 out of each...
This neat reasoning has one major flaw. Where a publisher has the field to himself, his newspaper can be a mediocre hodgepodge of rural obits on the front page, disjointed wire-service pieces, syndicated advice columns, plus a heavy dose of detailed high school sports coverage. Yet it will blanket the area, carry all the advertising the marketplace can afford, and make as much money as any Pulitzer prizewinner would in the same situation...
...Oswald was alleged to have said, at the very most, that she saw something in a blanket that could have been a rifle. However, it soon became plain that the Secret Service "leak" was itself absolutely inaccurate...
...rather than marble, was shaped to the sculptor's concept of form. The Schatzkammer's most ostentatious piece, an equestrian statue of the knight St. George, has 2,291 diamonds, 406 rubies and 209 pearls-and an artistic value transcending them all. Almost unnoticed beneath its bright blanket of jewels, the horse's opal eye flashes balefully from a smooth, stylized head of chalcedony. The swoop of the knight's crystal blade pulls the composition together, drawing attention to the writhing dragon underfoot-a creature all the more monstrous for its emerald scales and egg-sized...
...become the great American mumble. In a day when Hail to Thee, Oh Fink might best express "school spirit," the old Alma Mater idea seems "too hot-rocket" to kids unwilling to give "that kind of allegiance just to a college." Dissenters refuse to rise and sing because "your blanket falls off." Princeton hearts pound at Old Nassau, but Princeton mouths go da di da. Even Georgia Tech's "ramblin' wrecks" sing to the Alma Mater in a vast hum, as of bees. South Benders "cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame," but the sacred second line comes...