Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joke: "If anyone hears dogs barking, it's because the next leg will be done by sled." That led to a stream-of-consciousness monologue skipping erratically from dogs to other animals to firearms (Reagan has a small gun collection and does some target shooting, though he does not hunt) and concluding with a reading aloud from that day's installment of Doonesbury, one of Reagan's favorite comic strips. In a 1965 autobiography, recalling his elation at acting in college plays, Reagan wrote, "Nature was trying to tell me something ?namely, that my heart is a hamloaf...
...example, each bond has 20 oz. of silver behind it, when it is redeemed the holder will receive $1,000 or the value of 20 oz. of silver, whichever is greater. The advantage to Sunshine, which recently escaped a bloody takeover attempt by the silver-coveting Hunt brothers of Dallas, is that bond buyers are expected to accept a lower rate of interest because of the bonds' silver lining. Other potential borrowers are closely watching the issue, since its success could mean cheap money for asset-rich gold-mining and even oil companies...
...Look how this magical place affects the heroine: "Venice inspired her to meet its fantasy with her own, to finally wear the Norman Hartnell dress designed during the last years of the twenties . . ." From Venice, perhaps, off to tour the castles of England and then, come spring, to the hunt country of Virginia...
...price of deeply scarring his political future; in the words of West Coast journalist Mary Ellen Leary, he has been branded "a surfer on every popular wave, a politician who veers to the current fad with an intuition as unerring as a heat-seeking missile on the hunt of its target...
...society's has been a prosaic; if mildly prosperous, existence. With little turnover in membership, about 200 people constantly work in Belmont, the western headquarters in San Marino, Calif., and in the field. A council whose members include former New Hampshire Gov. Meldrim Thompson and Bunker Hunt, of the Texas oil family, raised and administer an 58 million budget that has not changed in about five years. The latest major project is something called TRIM, Tax Reform Immediately, an organization of local pamphleteers who rate their congressman by his stands on raising taxes. Far from extremist, TRIM fits right into...