Word: herring
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...frail denizen of Toronto, covered with feathers. The weapon: a spheroid mass of hide, cork and yarn flung carelessly, at perhaps 70 m.p.h. So the charge sheet might have read last week on New York Yankee Centerfielder Dave Winfield after his arrest in Toronto for fatally beanballing a herring gull...
...Mitterrand, who had come to Williamsburg proclaiming his desire for a Bretton Woods-style conference designed to enforce stability among different currencies. The U.S. had previously resisted any significant intervention in the free-floating exchange market. Though some observers regarded Mitterrand's Bretton Woods call as a red herring, the French were looking for at least a U.S. show of respect for their concern about the ill effects of unpredictable currency fluctuations. At the final session, Reagan showed his skill as a mediator by suggesting that debate over a paragraph dealing with protectionism be postponed while other issues were...
...suffered two heart attacks and was still feeling the effects of breaking his hip last November, Begin, 69, was working last week at his usual rigorous pace. He generally rises at 5 a.m., and for the next three hours, after breakfasting on sour milk, cold herring and tea (no lemon, milk or sugar, but some artificial sweetener), he reads four Hebrew-language daily newspapers and the English-language Jerusalem Post. Around 8 a.m., he is whisked to his office eight minutes away in the silver Dodge that serves as Israel's official car for the Prime Minister. Then he really...
...budget called for a rules change that would bar all graduate and professional students from the low-interest loan program, while increasing starting fees and interest rates and tightening eligibility requirements for undergraduates. While some lobbyists and legislators considered the proposal so ridiculous as to be Reagan's "red herring," a bargaining chip in case outraged interest groups wanted to bargain, others viewed it as a threat touching on the troublesome question of just how much students can realistically be loaned in the first place...
...banana after it had been peeled. "Millie in The Bronx," a fretful housewife whose letter ran in February, was rewhining the kvetch of "Irving's wife" 15 years earlier, namely, what to do with a husband who stopped off every night at his mother's for chopped herring. Says Ann in an explanatory column: "If just one editor or publisher had let me know that such a practice was not acceptable, I would have discontinued it at once. Obviously, I was naive, but I certainly was not duplicitous." Come again...