Word: handing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...special Mercedes-Benz, engulfed in the frightening adoration that he ignited. Hitler's car moved slowly; his bodyguards in other vehicles patrolled at the sides, automatic weapons laid out on the car floors. The bareheaded Hitler, so ordinary a man in himself, seemed transformed. "The nonchalant flip of the hand and a faint smile acknowledged the tributes," Helms recalls. "Even little children spontaneously shot out their arms." The bright sun glanced off the red Nazi flags hanging everywhere...
...pinkish tinge. Mustache: slightly shot with gray. Teeth: bottom row gold-plated, which leads to the hunch that they are false. Stature: shorter than expected. Uniform: brown boots and breeches, simple brown shirt, adorned only by the Iron Cross and Nazi brassard. Smile: humorless. Salute: stylized by throwing the hand back over the shoulder. Manner: pleasant, usually not at ease, knees moving back and forth nervously...
...needed, for Viet Nam had created a barrier of estrangement between America's warrior class and the nation it serves. Tom Clancy's novels may be romanticized, but they have helped bring down this wall. Not bad for a small- town insurance man who thought he might try his hand at popular fiction...
While the bailout has bold ambitions, its financing is based on a dismaying kind of budgetary sleight of hand that hides the real cost from taxpayers. Of the $50 billion that the Government will spend on the bailout in this fiscal year, $30 billion will be borrowed through bond sales and will be considered "off budget." It will not be counted as Government spending and will not exacerbate this year's federal deficit. The remaining $20 billion will be in the budget, but slipped in through a loophole in the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings law, so that the spending will...
...course, but to do more than that. By junking the cages and building vast biological gardens, the zoos provide a decent, delightful place for animals and people to meet and, with luck, fall in love. Once that bond is made, the visitors discover there is a larger mission at hand, a crusade to join. Between the birth of Christ and the Pilgrims' landing, perhaps several species a year became extinct. By the 1990s the extinction rate may reach several species an hour, around the clock. American zoos are leading the battle to stop that clock and recruit others...