Word: inked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Military historians have spilled much ink on the difficulties of pushing the German army out of Italy. Mowat writes sparely and in the blood of his friends. They fall by the score while crossing exposed rivers and valleys, and stumble upward to their deaths during assaults on heavily fortified mountaintops. Spandaus and Schmeissers perforate them; eighty-eights and "Moaning Minnies" dismember them. The term "enfilading fire" recurs. It means that the enemy can spray shells and bullets up and down one's position as if he were watering a garden...
Total federal spending in the fiscal year starting Oct. 1 will grow to $615.8 billion, while the deficit is conservatively estimated at $15.8 billion. The red ink could go much higher. Spending for the 1980 budget, for example, is now projected to be $32 billion beyond the $532 billion set last January. Although Carter officials call the budget "tight and responsible," one White House aide quipped during the planning: "The word is out that the President would like to win the election...