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...Devious" was House Republican Leader Gerald Ford's word for the Administration's request. "A gigantic crap game, with the taxpayer the only one who loses." Actually, in asking Congress last week for broader authority to sell Government-held loans to private investors, President Johnson was resorting to a revenue-stretching device that was pioneered by the Eisenhower Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Stretching the Revenue | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

...just as hostile, and even less accessible. While in Bogalusa this summer, I asked Sims the size of his organization, and he growled, "I don't want nobody to know how big or how small we are. It's the idea alone that cuts down a lot of the crap." I put the same question to a few of his lieutenants and got no answer...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: Charles Sims | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

...about this guy, Nathan Detroit. He runs a crap game, but there's no place to play. So he bets a Sky Masterson that this Sky guy can't con a Salvation Army girl into going to San Juan with him (some Harvie in back of me said it was really supposed to be Havana, but the Commies screwed it up). Oh yeah, Nathan's got a stripper he's engaged to for fourteen years, named Adelaide, she's the best thing in the show. She knows how to move. And she's got a great voice. Kind of like...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Guys and Dolls | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...chorus doesn't seem to know where it's supposed to be. Like where we guys hang around streetcorners, these show guys just sort of mill. But a lot of the time they're supposed to be hanging around streetcorners, so it's OK. And when they shoot crap, they got a great sewer...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Guys and Dolls | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...show teaches you a lesson: marry a girl who likes to shoot crap. I knew that already, but this is a fun way to learn. When I grow up I want to be Nathan Detroit...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Guys and Dolls | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

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