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...career. Today he alludes to those troubled times in his patented short sentences: "I'm not unique. People have bad patches and good patches. I don't dwell in the past. Don't look back on it. It's over, done. Buried. The past is dead as a doornail. You can't undo it. It's all there...
...controversy the Senate will face now is whether to accept King's campaign pledge to repeal the 7.5 percent income tax surtax. House leaders have said that insufficient funds exist, but King insists he still supports the tax. Bachrach said that the tax repeal plan is "dead as a doornail," but LoPresti said he hoped some sort of tax cut would go through...
Percy said he convinced Brezhnev and Gromyko that the unratified SALT II accord was "as dead as a doornail." Percy suggested instead that representatives from both nations meet informally to decide what was worth salvaging from SALT II. Once they reached "reasonable agreement" on at least some principles, it might be possible to begin a new set of negotiations, Percy told the Soviets. "I would be surprised if both sides do not agree to sit down at an early date to discuss arms control," said Percy...
...ends of the muscles, nerves, sinews and bone of one piece matching a similar ar rangement in the other." His characters "sink their teeth" into "weighty problems," accept things "lock, stock and barrel," and come to clanging conclusions like: "The old order of things was as dead as a doornail." After an hour or two of this, who could be blamed for edging away from the bar, despite Farrell's undoubted substance and seriousness, and going inside for some dinner? Anything but leg of lamb...
...fact, the council's new nonpolitical, efficient, relaxed mood typifies the way Rosovsky wants to run the Faculty. "There hasn't been a single issue in my administration in which I've been concerned about old politics. It's dead as a doornail. If the Faculty becomes political. I will have failed...