Word: marche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sound. The Jeep-like vehicles used by the construction crews had quilts on their hoods; at a bridge construction site, workers were busy "cooking" concrete in warm elevated shacks before pouring it into foundations. The bridge, begun eight months ago, was due to be finished at the end of March. "I'll be here for the victory," said Foreman Vladimir Zudilov, 32, whose fur ear flaps were covered with hoarfrost. "And then we'll move on to start another BAM bridge...
...would have lost his patience as a result of their deliberate failure to respond for almost half a year), I didn't show that I was upset in the least and did leave for Moscow. At the talks I repeated the words I had said to them in March: "I don't mind, my friends, if you keep me one step behind Israel [in armaments] but I find it a bit too much to be twenty steps behind...
Although food takes a declining share of U.S. family budgets these days, and the Government's consumer price index has been revised to reflect that trend (TIME, March 13), food-price increases are still the most visible and annoying variety of inflation to millions of consumers. Shoppers' beefs will soon get even louder. Last week the Government reported that the February Wholesale Price Index for finished goods, which foreshadows retail prices, jumped at an annual rate of 14%, nearly double the January rise and the biggest monthly leap since November 1974. Food, which did more than anything else...
...course, St. Paddy's Day makes the task a little easier. My uncle used to refer to March 17 as "a day when Irishmen of all nations get together to celebrate," and he had a point. So if the guy on the next stool over insists that the key to John Havelicek's success is his fine Irish blood, don't start to argue. Relax and drink up--today, everyone is an Honorary Irishman...
...March. The month when everyone stops talking sports and starts discussing politics to fill out the meaningless lunchtime "Hey, how's it going?" type of conversation. And while they say politics makes for strange bedfellows, my recurring nightmares still consist of being alone in a room with Jack O'Callahan and no referee...