Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While others like Billy wait outside, Stewart Guernsey moves around in the basement downstairs. His faded blue overalls drag on the ground as he pulls out mattresses from a stack in the corner, sorts through bedding and organizes a staff of volunteers. With his unassuming manner and style of dress, few would distinguish him from the frequenters of the shelter. Even fewer would guess that he is a first-year Harvard Divinity School student...
...Institution, "you start sending wrong signals to consumers and investors. And we set the stage for returning to more wasteful use of energy." In addition to bolstering conservation, taxes could help several nations - the U.S. in particular - to shrink their budget deficits, but the fees would also be a drag on hoped-for world economic recovery...
...loud, "I see an urgency in the President's making his intentions known. I think he needs to give a clear signal. Dole, Baker and Kemp right now aren't sure what's going on, but they aren't going to allow the year to drag on and give Bush...
...Union to withdraw from its Afghan quagmire, there has been no evidence of that so far. Says a senior British diplomat: "No one is winning, and short of a decision by Andropov to extricate himself from the country, of which we see no meaningful sign at present, it could drag on for years...
...chuckle. When the chapel was rebuilt four years ago, a glassmaker from Tours had a little private fun as he created the new windows with a touch of Gallic wit. Flanking Jesus in the Resurrection scene on one of the windows are two Roman guards dressed in gladiatorial drag and bearing the distinct likenesses of French President Francois Mitterrand and Communist Party Leader Georges Marchais. No one noticed at first, and now Father Louis Hubert and his parishioners are content to let them be. "There were a few nasty souls," says Father Hubert, "who intimated that Jesus bears a strange...