Word: bread
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Musselman has a three pitch repertoire: a bread-and-butter slider ("My best pitch"), a curveball ("My out pitch") and a fastball ("I've been clocked up at 88 [m.p.h.] before...
...Chadbourne, a wheeling-dealing corporation lawyer, claims that during the 1920s Chadbourne gave Smith cash and stock options worth $400,000. The motive was high-minded: the payments were designed to augment Smith's $10,000-a-year Governor's salary so the Happy Warrior could live "without bread-and- butter worries." Chadbourne, who died in 1938, admits he was miffed when Smith later refused to support a subway-fare increase, which would have hugely added to the value of Chadbourne's mass-transit stock...
...recent historical research. Poet's present some of the most sensitive perceptions of their world, and Lonsdale shows us that eighteenth century life was not simply about sprawling manors, doddering curates, fox hunting and professional male poets, but also about the horrors, and joys, of opium, chimney sweeping, marriage, bread riots, the difficulty of being a woman in a man's world, soldiering, and even the laundry. The book helps us to a broader understanding of the time...
...arable land is under cultivation, exports have fallen 50%, and the government is saddled with a foreign debt of $9 billion. Shortly before his ouster, Nimeiri, under pressure from the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund, imposed austerity measures that included sharp increases in the prices of bread and fuel. That show of discipline prompted Washington, two weeks ago, to free $67 million in assistance that had been frozen since mid-August. It also moved the people of Sudan to launch the general strike that brought Nimeiri down...
...little seems forced by headlines. McCarthy writes, therefore she is, and she is everywhere. In the course of a dissertation on cooking, she quotes a parody of Goethe's Werther: "Charlotte, having seen his body/ Borne before her on a shutter,/ Like a well-conducted person,/ Went on cutting bread and butter." Charlotte was a lady after the author's art. Let violence and fatuities pass in review; the well-conducted Mary McCarthy will watch and then slice them into appropriate pieces. Books and events have always been her bread and butter...