Word: dwellings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Novices begin with The Best's Best Exit Line, provided by former Vice President Alben Barkley. The Veep, "Speaking at the commencement exercises of the University of Kentucky, declared, 'I would rather sit at the feet of the Lord than dwell in the house of the mighty.' He thereupon keeled over and died." At one low-tide sand bar this "Best" was challenged by a player who offered Henry David Thoreau's reply when his aunt asked if he had made his peace with God: "I was not aware that we had quarreled." Play-offs will...
...pressures on Nixon mounted, it seemed inconceivable that he did not from time to time let his mind dwell, however briefly, on the one course of action that would ease them immediately: resignation. Aides said that such a step was out of the question. But it offered definite benefits to the beleaguered President. If convicted by the Senate, Nixon, now financially hard pressed, would forfeit his presidential pension of $60,000 a year, plus up to $96,000 annually to maintain a staff and office, and Pat would lose her right to a $20,000 annual pension if he died...
With his wife Jeanne and their five children observing in court, Ehrlichman took the stand in his own defense. He emphasized that he had nothing illegal in mind when he approved the covert operation. "My mind didn't dwell on the various possibilities. I didn't run over possible means or methods...
...that students today worry about and struggle only for security careers in what they perceive as a frightening economic environment, we can be inspired by the admirable Loeb portrayal of Ralph Berger's tentative growth and determination during the bottom of the Depression, "Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust," Jacob quotes Isaiah, "and the earth shall cast out the dead...
...Macdonald wrote allegorical, spiritual fantasy in a language that can only be described as lyric and dignified. Archetypes people his tales--like Photogen, the "day boy" and Nycteris, the "night girl" whom a witch raised on "wine dark as a carbuncle, and pomegranates, and purple grapes, and birds that dwell in marshy places; and she played to her mournful tunes, and caused wailful violins to attend her, and told her sad tales, thus holding her ever in an atmosphere of sweet sorrow...