Word: cushioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stubborn absence of humor or the manic mugging by the star, Louis de Funès, whose exertions make Jerry Lewis look, by comparison, like Alfred Lunt. De Funès likes to pop his eyes out, fast and wide, like two billiard balls bouncing off the side cushion. He is ever choleric, his veins on the point of rupture, like a man who has been mud-splattered by the bus he just missed...
Legal aid for the poor has become an accepted concept in American society, but without the proper back-up resources, it can only serve as a thin cushion insulating a large class of citizens from the shocks of poverty. With the limiting of the poor's access to the courts, perhaps social change will take place in the nation's streets...
Smith said the $2 million cushion between construction costs and the amount the corporation will have in the bank is a contingency in case the construction is delayed again...
Some countries might still attempt to cushion the blow to their economies by sharply devaluing their currencies or trying to expand vastly their exports to other hard-hit nations while restricting their own imports. The result, warned IMF Managing Director H. Johannes Witteveen last week, could be a resurgence of old-fashioned protectionism and a devastating trade...
Temple trailed Harvard early but recovered for a seemingly safe nine-point cushion with nine minutes remaining. But the Crimson came charging back to tie at 59 with two and a half minutes...