Word: brush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest crisis-the fourth and worst brush with default since last spring -occurred when city officials had to come up with $477 million to redeem short-term notes, pay sanitation workers and meet other expenses-but had only $34 million in the till. This near disaster was primarily caused by a flaw in the complex $2.3 billion rescue package that the state legislature had put together last month to carry the city into December. To guarantee that the state would have help in bailing out the city, the legislature had constructed a Rube Goldberg financing scheme that offered...
...climate is as burdensome as the loneliness. Temperatures during the day frequently soar above 110° F. and at night occasionally plunge below freezing. The silence is total, except when broken by wind whistling through the sere brush. Often the passes turn into wind tunnels, with sandstorms gusting through at 20 and 30 miles an hour. In the winter, sudden cloudbursts can cause flash floods...
...forced, and it must be done in all innocence, a word they use over and over again. "If you list instructions, you can't do it," asserts Charles Donahue, coordinator of TM's Northeast region. "It's like falling asleep. You can tell someone what he has to do?brush his teeth, put on his p.j.s and so on?before going to bed. But how do you describe the actual process of falling asleep...
...Hoyo de Manzanares, the convoy disappeared up a twisting, rutted dirt road. Barred from following, we turned off the car motor and listened. Off below, down the road among the boulders and scrub brush, there was a sudden volley of rifle fire. It was 9:25 a.m. At 9:40 a.m. there came a second volley and at 10, a third. Armed police shuffled up and down the dirt road, calmly puffing cigarettes. By 11, the gray vans carrying the remains appeared, en route back to the village. A black car also loomed into view; it contained the local priest...
...journalistic responsibility-the many decisions involved in how to play a story-is to be taken lightly. Several journalists, both print and broadcast, worried especially about the impact of television. Charles Seib, press ombudsman at the Washington Post, is offended by televised "instant replay" of President Ford's brush with death outside the St. Francis Hotel. "They played it slow, they played it fast, they paused," he complains. "You've seen that film a dozen times now." A number of newsmen are irked that Lynette Fromme's troubles with her .45-cal. automatic pistol received such instructively...