Word: cushioned
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There last week was Mike Disalle, the former Democratic Governor of Ohio, Truman's price stabilizer, Kennedy pol and Johnson friend, looking as if he had not moved from his cushion in Sans Souci. He savored both the veal kidneys and the fact that his party would be moving back into the nearby White House...
...objective: to protect smaller operations among the U.S.'s 2.8 million farms (down from 5.4 million in 1950). This intervention will take the form of higher crop-support prices and increased crop loans coupled with creation of a national grain-reserve system to cushion farmers against price fluctuations...
Rosovsky warned in his letter that the Faculty must begin rebuilding this fund through balanced budgets or face losing what he calls the Faculty's "financial cushion for the future...
Harvard's cushion increased throughout the second half as Jonas Honick slinked through a corner jumper to make it 42-32 with 12:38 remaining...
...distance, to be "coded." The title of Odalisk, 1955-58, directs us to a favorite image of those two sultans of French art, Ingres and Matisse?the harem nude. Rauschenberg parodies that: the box on its post alludes to a human figure; a torso, teetering on its absurd harem cushion. The sides of the box are plastered with pinups and reproductions of classical nudes. Finally, the stuffed chicken on top of the box reminds us that one of the many French terms for an expensive courtesan is a poule de luxe...