Word: grows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile Gill was busy directing the lives of his flock: women's skirts must be below the knee and men must grow beards. Gill also came to see Henry Kissinger as the Antichrist because he was a powerful man whose actions affected the fate of Israel, and he sent such fiery spiritual threats in telegrams to President Nixon that the Secret Service paid him a visit. Local clergy inquired quietly about Gill's sanity...
Shock Effect. Last week the House Budget Committee estimated $72 billion, but the Office of Management and Budget calculated that if Congress passes every proposal now before it, the figure would grow to $100 billion or more. If that report was meant to shock Congress, it had the desired effect. The next day Maine Democrat Edmund Muskie, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, warned his fellow Senators that "Congress is going to have to exercise great restraint to avoid overshooting the mark as we try to get our economy moving again...
...himself from some final commitment to Adriana by regarding her, however lovingly, as just a bedmate. When Adriana finally recognizes this and acts on it, Paul is baffled, and we are startled. With Paul, we have been beguiled by the very qualities that Adriana, intuitively, has started to out grow. In the end she moves...
...breathed air here, as well as in "Nostasia in Asia," the five-part piece that concludes the collection. Some of the ground and most of the mock dudgeon are reminiscent of Westward Ha! (1948). That magnificent Middle Eastern curse, "May you live a thousand years and a trolley car grow in your stomach annually!" appeared at least once before in The Rising Gorge...
Ever since the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries quintupled the price of oil, economists and bankers have expected the U.S. balance of payments deficit to grow steadily worse. And it has. Higher petroleum prices have drained increasingly large sums from the U.S. and produced ever bigger payments deficits since early last year All the same, last week's report of a record deficit in the final quarter of 1974 was a shocker. It dramatized the extent of the financial hemorrhaging that has hit the U.S. since OPEC boosted prices...