Word: frugal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Part of Cushing's ability to sell a cause was surely his own quiet example of personal austerity: he joked about his official residence being "the biggest joint on Commonwealth Avenue," but his personal life within it was simple and frugal. Once he amazed a visitor by proudly showing off a $3 pair of black loafers he had picked up at Filene's basement. Part of his effectiveness, too, was Cushing's broad, transparent humanity, which seemed to embrace not only every faith but even, on occasion, rather conflicting ideologies. "He had a good word...
What Nixon needs now is Congress's cooperation, especially on his proposed new budget. His frugal spending plans have been jarred by hastily prepared pay raises for federal employees that resulted from the Post Office strike. Yet his attack on the Senate last week produced hostility that he can ill afford. The President's accusations, after all, hit not merely the 51 Senators who voted against Carswell. In the vote on Haynsworth and in the two tests on Carswell, a total of 61 Senators opposed the Administration...