Word: blarneyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...luncheon in the Speaker's lair on Capitol Hill. But the tableau of bipartisan spirits, which reflected the compromises that have been attained so far on Social Security and a $5 billion jobs program, may be the last symbolic display of unity for a while. Beneath the blarney was brewing what could turn out to be a bloody partisan battle. After the lunch was over, the House Budget Committee passed a plan designed by the Democratic leadership that sets up a showdown over the budget for fiscal 1984, which begins in October...
...weeks, I had my lunch indoors, in a sawdusty bar and grill on Eighth Avenue called the Blarney Stone. I patronized the Blarney Stone's grill, but the bar was never short for business. Each day, a cluster of grizzled old guys huddled around one corner of the counter, nurturing their pints and carrying on what appeared to be an endlessly repeating discussion of welter weight boxing. And at a table in the back, two small mailmen sat down everyday, without fail, and quietly drained a pair of enormous pitchers...
...order at the Blarney Stone was brisket on an onion roll--a huge sandwich that came with a plate of home fries and a bowl of thick homemade soup. I ate it at the back of the restaurant, where I could watch the mailmen...
That was my last meal at the Blarney Stone. For the rest of the summer, I pounded the pavement for my lunch. It is now a full half-year since I ate my way down South Avenue from 55th St, to 49th St, but the landscape is still fresh in my memory, and I can--and often do--recite the litany of pushcarts that fed me last June, July, and August. In order, walking downtown...
...mere four days, the committee voted to reduce planned expenditures in fiscal 1982, which starts Oct. 1, by $36.4 billion-actually $2.3 billion more than Reagan asked.* Combining bluster and blarney, Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico easily held his eleven fellow Republicans together against all attempts by the ten Democrats to narrow reductions in social programs. Frustrated and divided, the Democrats in the end joined in a unanimous vote for the full package. "We are wreaking unbelievable havoc on the lives of millions of poor Americans," mourned Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum -just before he meekly murmured...