Word: break
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard will next be making its annual spring break tour. The Crimson will visit New Orleans, where it will take on LSU, Tulane, and the New Orleans men's club side...
...Susan Lee, a Manhattan tax preparer, the consequences of tax reform became strikingly clear during a consultation in her office. While helping a client with his return, she watched as the middle-aged artist became increasingly agitated. Hoping a break would calm him, Lee handed the man an article on tax reform and directed him to a chair in the corner of her office. But within minutes of returning to deskside, the client was gesturing so violently with his arms that he walloped a lamp, sending it headlong into a wall and shattering the bulb. Said a sympathetic Lee: "This...
Fourth, open talk begins to break the ice between Jewish and non-Jewish Americans, thus displaying exactly how much or how little anti-Semitism is being concealed. Anti-Semites and Jews alike may be shocked to discover that for most Americans, being opposed to one or another aspect of Israel's behavior is just that and no more, having nothing to do with deep- or shallow- seated anti-Jewish feelings...
...turn the Tanners' backyard into a lagoon. If I don't like the President's policy on nuclear arms, I'll phone him on Air Force One and explain how we incinerated Melmac. Still the same old me: no moral compass, no sense of proportion, no fear. I still break things a lot too. I learned the hard way that you can't smoke fish in a toaster, puree a rock in a blender or light an oven an hour after you turn on the gas. I even accidentally scared an old man to death and discovered that makes earthlings...
...chance to make his critics eat their words once again. "I suspect that George Bush might surprise people by being bolder than expected," says Mitchell Daniels, a former head of the White House political- liaison office and current chief of the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank. "He might break out of the mold...