Word: clippings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high court, is in danger of becoming the first justice ever voted off it. Last week the state G.O.P. came out against her as "a serious threat to the California courts"; by November a coalition of Bird hunters will have spent upwards of $600,000 on a campaign to clip the judge's wings. Late last week, Bird's chances of hanging on improved somewhat when the State Supreme Court approved the constitutionality of Proposition 13, the highly popular tax-cut measure...
...DRINK. I concurred in the general consensus and elbowed and gouged my way up to the bar in vintage Ed King, clip-'em-on-the-sweep fashion. The bar-tender, a smallish man unaccustomed to such mass displays of joviality, informed me that Scotch and soda was going for $1.90 that night. Ed King, I realized, would run a frugal administration, having already cut back on essential social services. I settled for ginger...
...like the opening of F-Troop--the clip where the cavalry charges onto the prairie, then beats an equally hasty retreat as the film rewinds...
...More than 350 guests, including the Countess of Suffolk, the Baron de Montesquieu and the prince of thespian cool, James Mason, consumed 300 lobsters, 25 Ibs. of beluga caviar and 50 cases of Dom Perignon champagne while inaugurating wheels and tables that insouciantly accommodate $8,000 wagers at a clip. "Nice, isn't it?" a Ritz entrepreneur observed demurely. "In London, there's something for everyone...
...days later, Carter raised annual import quotas from 1.3 billion to 1.5 billion Ibs. Now that seemingly enormous amount works out to 1 lb. per American for the rest of this year and will probably clip a few pennies a pound off hamburger. Beef prices in general are expected to level out or decline a bit in the months ahead. But the psychological blow to ranchers has been devastating. The value of their cattle has dropped $6 billion since Carter's import decision, says McDougal, who adds, "We feel betrayed...