Word: dearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then you look up and you see there's a man's arm sticking out of the end of the grinder, with the hand gripped sweatily around the handle turning away for dear life, or death. The hand is turning and the grinder is grinding and somewhere in between there's the owner of the hand, who is quickly turning himself into so much ground round. And over in the corner there's the suave detective, with a little moustache and a twenty-below-zero stare watching perfunctorily. Looking at the owner a weasily guy who is paying to attention...
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Carter's entrepreneurial urge is heavily flavored by biblical entreaties to feed the poor and keep one's brother, but his insistence that the American economic machine get attention right now is dear to his engineer's head and heart. Charles Kirbo, Carter's friend and counselor, who sits in on many of those White House meetings, says Carter's first instinct is to see if there is some way the private sector can help solve problems. "That was what he always did as Governor," insists Kirbo. In Carter's musings with people like...
Certainly nothing much happens in the Russian provincial military outpost where the three sisters are exiled psychologically as well as physically from their dear beloved Moscow. Boredom, drunkenness, mean gossip and despair are the town's leading resources, and the sisters drown in anguish...
...ever say again that ol' Sam Hudson doesn't go all the way for the voters. Since January, Hudson, a Texas state legislator serving a Dallas district, has submitted 106 bills that he said were dear to his constituents. But key committees ignored the measures. Upset by charges that he lacked legislative clout, Hudson did some fast thinking...