Word: boils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freezing overall federal spending in order to reduce gargantuan deficits. But long before the fat, gray-bound budget volumes appeared over the weekend, that theme had got lost in a spreading uproar over one component of the budget that Reagan, far from freezing, wants to maintain at a rolling boil: military spending...
...controlled operation, like the one set up by H.R. Haldeman in the Nixon White House. A lively storyteller who has an easy rapport with his fellow Irishman in the Oval Office, Regan is far less dour than Haldeman, but he may turn out to be as tough. His emotions boil close to the surface, and his explosions of temper keep aides on their toes--and a little cowed...
According to Kirsch, the "Doss Yale Make Your Blood Boil?" campaign was just one "new gimmick" that Cambridge Red Cross and on-campus organizers wanted to try to attract donors...
When he is at full boil, Tosches writes the way Little Richard talks. Wanda Jackson, purveyor of 1958's excellent Fujiyama Mama ("When I start eruptin', ain't nobody gonna make me stop"), was simply "too hot a package to sell over the counter." Louis Jordan "made party music . . . in which every aspect of the expanding universe was seen in terms of fried fish, sloppy kisses, gin, and the saxophone whose message transcends knowing." Very hep and very fond, Unsung Heroes also includes an "Archaeologia Rockola," which can direct the untutored reader to such diverse selections...
...Williams' perfervid, evocative (if dramatically a bit clumsy) explorations of Southern familial passions. Her husband Brick has taken to the bottle and thrown her out of bed in despondency over the death of his best friend and the specter of his own homosexuality. Their marital crisis reaches a boil at the birthday party...