Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pass, and the child earns her innocent keep about the house by posing as Cupid in the drawing room, while commercial sex flourishes around her. Then comes puberty and the improbable onset of pinions. With the help of Lizzie, a retired whore and her adopted mother, Fevvers learns to extend her new appendages and fly. The one-eyed madam, who is nicknamed Nelson and wears the full uniform of an admiral of the fleet, witnesses the maiden voyage and exclaims: "Oh, my little one, I think you must be the pure child of the century that just now is waiting...
...many farmers are not getting by. Foreign markets are disappearing, land values are tumbling, banks are hesitant to extend loans. The auctioneer's hammer is falling on land and buildings held for generations by the same farm families; white crosses are appearing in Midwestern courthouse squares to commemorate the growers forced out of business. And in Washington the Government is absorbed in a fierce debate about federal assistance to farmers. The issue: do most programs any longer make sense or, as the Reagan Administration contends, have they become an unjustifiable burden on taxpayers while serving to undermine the economic security...
...debate began last week with a verbal explosion touched off by--who else?--the Administration's self-appointed sayer-out-loud of the politically unthinkable: Budget Director David Stockman. At a Senate Budget Committee hearing, he was asked what relief the Administration was willing to extend to farmers who are unable to repay their loans. His reply: "For the life of me, I cannot figure out why the taxpayers of this country have the responsibility to go in and refinance bad debt that was willingly incurred by consenting adults who went out and bought farmland when the price was going...
...back. And have you ever met or dealt with Fox? Most of you have not. Does it or should it matter? Indeed, we think it should. As the top person responsible for the lives of Harvard undergraduates, the dean of the College is someone whose contact with students should extend beyond the closed-door meetings of the mysterious Administrative Board and the limited forum of student-faculty committees, attended regularly by but a select few Undergraduate Council members. More than a dean of students, whose primary job at this school is to oversee extracurricular activities, the dean of the College...
When Extension School Director Michael Shinagel asked Glauber to "extend" his popular Core course, Glauber agreed--but only if local high school students were invited to enroll free of charge...