Word: gushingly
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...visitors from America had come to pay a courtesy call on Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and his stylish wife Imelda. Dutifully diplomatic, they praised Autocrat Marcos for his leadership and vision. The President was flattered, and one of the guests continued to gush. "Looking at the way you chose your wife, I can see you're not so dumb," said Muhammad Ali. Joe Frazier flinched, but Marcos quickly counterpunched. "Looking at yours," he informed the heavyweight champ, "I can see you're not so far behind...
...giving up territory. We expose ourselves to a security danger, and the very strong element of U.S. pressure is tantamount to a dictate from the U.S." Adds Shmuel Tamir, head of the right-wing Free Center faction: "This is not an agreement. It is unilateral withdrawal." The right-wing Gush Emunim movement is planning a giant anti-Kissinger demonstration when the Secretary of State takes his shuttle to Jerusalem. "Kissinger is a disaster," says Gershon Shafat. "His priorities are: one, Kissinger; two, the President; three, the U.S. Israel is nowhere among them...
...money-public money, ironically, appropriated to give aid and comfort to the Indigent aged. In 1966 the Federal Government began to pay for nursing-home care through Medicaid, a federal-state program that last year spent $4.4 billion of its $12.7 billion budget on the elderly. The sudden gush of cash set loose a nursing-home boom as many entrepreneurs, many of them interested only in the bottom line, rushed into the business...
...poems published in small journals, he comments on aspects of man's agonies, simple pleasures and the contradictions in his relationship to nature. Some of the poems are lighter, however. A sample entitled "Reciprocation": "It would be odd/ If a spring took no joy/ In beholding hope gush freshly,/ Or if a basaltic mountain/ Did not rest on the comfort of watching/ Human patience in place...
...profits continue to gush into the Persian Gulf nations, other governments, too, are beginning to make money from the stepped-up quest for oil. In the North Sea, explorations have so far turned up more than 20 billion bbl. of proven reserves, nearly 4% of the world total. Norway alone has proven reserves of about 6 billion bbl., and experts believe that the potential is at least twice that amount. Surprisingly, though, Norway is approaching its new riches with Scandinavian solemnity. Government planners predict that by 1981, oil output will pump more than $2.7 billion in yearly revenues into...