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...Economic Recovery, which Congress had already received. The numbers alone were startling enough: $467 billion less federal spending, combined with $709 billion in tax savings for individuals and businesses, over the next five years. Reagan called for cutbacks in federal programs dealing with everything "from space to the mailbox," as he put it in the speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Challenge to Change: Reagan calls for an end to spendthrift Big Government | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...roughly fifteen years of mailings, Viguerie has honed his prose into a weapon. Political "free discussion" streamlines into a crisp, readable text: paragraphs are short, ideas simple, and arguments emotionally and financially evocative. Evidently, Viguerie now thinks folks are ready to lift the Right's rhetoric out of the mailbox and into the bookmart...

Author: By Peter Sanborn, | Title: From Mailbox to Bookmart | 2/5/1981 | See Source »

...October afternoon in 1978, Lawyer Paul Morantz reached into the mailbox of his Los Angeles home and suddenly felt a sharp pain. He pulled back his hand-and with it a 4½-ft. diamond-back rattlesnake, its fangs embedded near his thumb. A tourniquet applied by a quick-thinking neighbor saved the lawyer's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Synanon Sequel | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

...Navin may end up the richer man--his adopted family and Marie find him on Skid Row and shower him with affirmation and love. As for Steve, if Martin the Writer continues to dominate Martin and Comedian, he may well find both his coffers and his mailbox empty after a few more flops like this film. By muffling his talent it loud strains of self-adulation like his most recent buck-snatching endeavors, Martin is eliciting the disgust of many of his early fans. Navin may be a jerk, but Martin is a fool...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Jerk-of-all-Trades | 2/7/1980 | See Source »

Your four love letters arrived today. My landlady said a heavily sweating man stuffed them in the mailbox and lurched off like a wounded kiwi, so I assume you delivered them yourself. A million thanks, really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Let's Fall in Limerence | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

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