Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economic proposals. Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale have begun making personal appeals to recalcitrant Senators for their support. In return, the President has agreed to reconsider some of the water-control projects on which substantial work has been done. His early-morning view: "I think a lot of them shouldn't go ahead even if they didn't cost a nickel. But the degree of completion is something that we should have given greater consideration...
...President leaves the meeting shortly before 7 p.m. He discusses it in the admiring way a street fighter would talk about a good brawl. "It was very tough," he says. "They really took a lot of shots at Schlesinger. But he defended himself well. He's a very smart man. There was a lot of very strong give-and-take. I was proud of everyone...
...Arthur Milgram, 48, head of a company that sells New York State lottery tickets through vending machines, executed on Feb. 8 in a Queens parking lot. Milgram was reportedly about to squeal on Mafia loan sharks who were trying to take over his business...
Nixon screamed a lot in his first year of life, and his "oral fixation" later produced enthusiasm for debating and a compulsion to talk on dates. The President-to-be suffered an "anal fixation" too. The evidence cited for this-e.g., his scatological remarks-would doom every G.I. and fraternity man. With both fixations at work, Abrahamsen solemnly concludes, "there could be tittle or no emotional growth...
...even follow." Adela spun sugarplum stories of wonderful "deals" through which she could help people multiply their money by buying land in Spain and selling it for huge markups, or by shipping Japanese cars to Indonesia, or by getting into the import-export trade. And a lot of folks, credulous and captivated, begged to get in on the action...