Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...similes: fine as frogs' hair...
...ability to manage economic policy?and his hopes of going into the election with a nicely improving economy?Were challenged by the news that in September wholesale prices jumped at about an 11% annual rate, the steepest rise in eleven months, and that unemployment declined only a hair, to 7.8% (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
...Neil is one of the city's best-known politicians. His stereotypical Irish pol looks--stocky build, slick white hair, and bulldog face--constant jokes and vicious racism make up his now familiar act. While newspaper articles on O'Neil recount his actions humorously, few seriously examine and explain the rise of this well-publicized but rather ineffective politician...
...Will we see the World Series here, Daddy?" a young boy with a gritty face, tousled hair and a Pirates hat (an eight-year-old Bill Mazeroski, maybe) asked his father in the center-field bleachers. "You'll see the World Series on TV," the man replied matter-of-factly. "They're not playing it here this year...
Predictably and pathetically, however, these crusades often took the form of silly flirtations with hippie dress, hallucinogens and other symbols of the counter-culture, and ended in the embarassing spectacle of a middle-aged refugee from the corporate rat-race (his hair probably thinning out so rapidly that a flower wouldn't even stick in it) bending some earth-mother's ear with ironic memories of his deserted wife and how she just did not understand...