Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...began to feel irrationally guilty for ever feeling irrationally guilty about irrationally hating Trump. As if he ever cared about quality. That bastard was just out to make a lousy buck...
When making a buck from human liberty is involved, the possibilities are endless. We might think that Gorbachev is just being cynical for cashing in on huddled masses yearning to breathe free. But long before Gorbachev demanded money for Lithuania's freedom, AT&T used television images of tearful Berliners to sell long-distance service. Who was the first to see dollar signs in democracy...
...Yeah, a buck for a soda," says Kataji. "We spent $90 going out tonight, so we figured we had to round...
...face imminent disclosure of his mysterious jottings, made in leather-bound notebooks. To date, only two of his closest aides have seen the original diary. The few attorneys who have examined excerpts say they contain no Iran-contra bombshells. But Poindexter, who insisted in Senate testimony that "the buck stopped with me" in keeping the diversion of arms profits a secret from his boss, hopes the diary will show that Reagan gave him at least implicit direction to do what...
...infectious. It fairly seethes in images like A Gaming Table at Devonshire House, 1791, where two of the wild aristocratic beauties of the day -- Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and her sister Lady Bessborough -- preside like maenads over the eddy of faces, dicing table and money, and a lecherous buck offers a woman a purse which, none too subtly, is shaped like a pair of testicles...