Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disinterested party," declared Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, newly elected president of the mayors' conference. Contended Jacksonville's Jake Godbold: "What the Administration is giving us right now is not help but misery." John Rousakis of Savannah, Ga., charged that Administration policies were designed to "take the monkey off the Federal Government's back and put it on the back of local government...
...Republic and a meeting with a nuclear physicist. Since being sentenced to a commune to grow tomatoes, she told Deng, the scientist said he felt much happier and more productive. Replied Deng politely: "He lied." Such rosy reports have been as predictable as the years of the Monkey, Pig and Goat, but from time to time, a Dengian antidote has been offered. Fox Butterfield's China: Alive in the Bitter Sea and Richard Bernstein's From the Center of the Earth supply in valuable truths to counter the diseases that afflict so many tourists: romanticism and naivet...
...then they steal the center of attention completely, and Woyzeck becomes a story told entirely in light, without words, an aural equivalent of the children's show Laserium. Words here do not tell, they sigh and flicker: and the ancestry they bring out in us is less monkey than moth...
Vellucci called the Linnaean St. case "a monkey on our back" and said that despite his request for a moratorium on condo discussions, "We're trying...
...Astrochimps, Enos passed the remainder of his Government service in relative obscurity. During celebrations in Washington marking the 20th anniversary of Glenn's historic spaceflight, the Democratic Senator from Ohio was given a surprise party. Enos couldn't make it, but a standin, dressed in a monkey suit, did, saluting Glenn and Wife Anna with four stanzas of doggerel, sung to the tune of When Johnny Comes Marching Home. A sampling: "Our pay was just the fruit we ate/ Hoorah, Hoorah/ But Johnny earned a lifelong fame/ Hoorah, Hoorah/ I hope that when he's President, chimps...