Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...influencing events." But those men attempted, with whatever ludicrous results, to reach far into the future. Chesterton's ideas were rooted in the past. He espoused "Distributism," a warm-hearted and thoroughly impractical program that recalled the days of yeomanry, when every man had three acres and a cow. "To say we must have Socialism or Capitalism," he protested, "is like saying we must choose between all men going into monasteries and a few men having harems...
...ever changing series of advertisements that all carry the same message, he drives home the lesson that municipal bonds can pay hefty returns to people who earn $50,000 a year or more. In one memorable commercial earlier this year, for instance, Lebenthal was seen holding paper cows made out of folded bond certificates. "We've been selling a cow that instead of milk gives money," he declares in his precise, didactic tone. "So put a little moola in your portfolio and get yourself a cash cow." The message is getting across. Lebenthal & Co.'s sales have been...
...climactic confrontation began when the Democratic House attached to its version of the continuing resolution a $5.4 billion "jobs program." The bill was a pork barrel brimming with public works projects: clearing Cow Castle Creek in South Carolina, rehabilitating a raceway in California, funding a tree-planting program, and repairing military housing facilities. Reagan, who vetoed a continuing resolution a year ago because he wanted more spending on defense and less on domestic programs, was infuriated. "I don't give a damn if it's Friday night and the Government is brought to a standstill," he told Republican...
...hard to imagine throngs of holiday shoppers buying out an establishment along a narrow rural road with cow-and horse crossing sings but no speed limit markers. But in the sleepy outskirts of Haverhill, Mass., just 25 miles north of Filene's. Pam and Bruce Hansen usually find themselves turning customers away from their cut-it-yourself tree farm just before Christmas...
Morrisonville was heavily populated with Bakers, and on soft summer nights young Russell would listen quietly as they gathered on his grandmother's porch to swat flies and swap news. Someone had lost his arm in a thresher accident, some one else had a sick cow, the crops were burning up for lack of rain. A branch of the family in the funeral business was stuck with a monstrously expensive glass coffin. Fortuitously, the area's biggest illegal distiller expired. His widow, impressed with the glass box and its air-tight rubber seal, bought the thing on sight...