Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson did not seem to break any new policy ground in this major summary and defense of his position in Vietnam, broadcast nationally by television and radio networks...
...some to swallow," said California's progressive Bishop C. Kilmer Myers, who supports the proposal but thinks it will have trouble being approved. The Rev. James Brice Clark of Nebraska asked: "Why should the church put money into poverty projects when there are federal projects covering the same ground?" There were also questions about whether the church is capable of such extravagant altruism, since 1967 national receipts are running $500,000 below expectations...
...pidgeons in such numbers we see fly That like a cloud they do make dark the sky; And in such multitudes are sometimes found, As that they cover both the trees and ground: He that advances near with one good shot, May kill enough to fill both spit...
...real problem is how to find one's car in the parking lot at the five and dime. The answer is to add a homey little touch-up. Tony Martin's Rolls has a special $1,000-plus finish called "pearl metallic," but it is really ground-up fish scales. The late Marie Macdonald had platinum-dust paint on her Caddy, but Elvis Presley has diamond dust on his. For further easy identification, Presley's car sports a yacht-style rear-seat lounge, portholes, gold lame drapes, gold curtains, gold mouton carpeting, gold-plated telephone...
...several weeks running, a WFBM executive in the guise of a Spanish-accented, used-mosquito dealer drummed up entries for the competition. Last week the results, and corpses, were in-in the office, to be exact, of WFBM Promotion Man Charley Rogers. One housewife had uncovered a mosquito mating ground near her suburban home; she bug-bombed it, netted 73,225 of the critters, mounted them on toilet tissue, and got $3,661.25. Total kill for all contestants was 225,481 mosquitoes. All told, the station was stung...