Word: damned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fundamental tax structure, not just a quickie tax cut." The present tax structure, he said, was established in the late 1940's to offset post-war inflationary pressure. He explained that basic economic problems have changed since then. The present tax structure is "simply inappropriate...taxes are too damn high...
...amounting to 6% of the animal's value) and 30% from insuring horses. The firm also insures dogs, cats, hogs, sheep, turkeys ("very hazardous because they're so vulnerable to changes in the weather," says Harding), mules, ponies, lions, tigers, monkeys, walruses ("We lost two of those damn things"), seals, elephants, gazelles and giraffes ("We have to make certain that their necks aren't bent during shipment"). They once insured a pink porpoise ("He survived nicely"), and they currently have a four-month policy on a pair of white rhinos at $5,000 each...
...growing collection. It was a sperm whale's tooth. 9½ in. long and 4½ in. in diameter. "This wasn't just an ordinary whale's tooth,'' marveled a White House aide. "I guess it is supposed to be the biggest damn whale's tooth ever found...
...actress, Romy has developed an almost military sense of profession. But she has little patience for schooled techniques. "What is the Method?" she says. "I don't know what it is. Acting is acting. You know what to do. My mother always quoted a director who said, 'Damn it, don't think, act!' " But in spite of herself, Romy Schneider thinks a great deal about her work, particularly about how difficult it is "to be a real human being in life" as well as on the stage. "Yes," she finishes with an ambivalent grin, "to make...
...resentment (the Sinclairs had come down in the world). Socialism was then in its quasi-religious phase, and he became one of its missionary preachers. It gave him fame and a million dollars from devout readers who devoured the prophet's politics and didn't care a damn about his prose...