Word: jarring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lost 45 Ibs., and James Baker has shed about 600 hairs. Ed Meese has picked up some of Deaver's pounds but none of Baker's hair. The Reagan Cabinet has gained two women and is a little more mellow, but it still has the same jar for its weekly dole of jelly beans...
...protected environment." Free enterprise is what is ruining the banking industry. It has killed the safeguards and ended the longest period of bank stability in our history. Banks are different from other businesses. They are supposed to be a safe repository, an alternative to the mattress and cookie jar and a stable pool of cash that can be called on to fuel the nation's economy. Banks should be the underwriters of the nation's financial security...
...witnesses wore black robes and cowls and testified through voice-altering devices. A Japanese gangster held up his hand to show how he had chopped off half his ringer to prove his repentance after having been disrespectful to his leader. He had put the severed finger in a small jar and sent it to the gang boss. One expert on the Chinese gangs told how members drank wine laced with both human and chicken blood while being initiated into their crime societies. He claimed that they condoned the murder of infants so that the tiny bodies could be stuffed with...
...gloves are coming back into fashion. "I've about run out of my stockpile," she says. Now 64, a widow since 1978, Margaret always wears a long dress because "I just feel more elegant, to be blunt about it." She is horrified by the idea of a tip jar ("It would seem like soliciting") and is hurt only "if someone requests a classic, like a Rachmaninoff concerto, something that takes a lot of your soul and concentration, arid then talks throughout. That breaks my heart...
...nutrients and then deposited in an incubator for four to eight hours. The husband, meanwhile, has produced a sperm sample. It is hardly a romantic moment, recalls Cleveland Businessman Popela, who made four trips to Cambridgeshire with his wife, each time without success. "You have to take the jar and walk past a group of people as you go into the designated room, where there's an old brass bed and a couple of Playboy magazines. They all know what you're doing and they're watching the clock, because there are several people behind you waiting their turn...