Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...necessarily oppose the Fed's raising interest rates, but he did not want the voters to blame him for it. Said a White House staff member: "There was a feeling that if a Democratic Administration was even tighter than the Federal Reserve Board, something was wrong. Put the monkey on the Fed's back, not ours...
...monkey off my back...
...would not spend time quietly at San Clemente." Says Ford: "It would be virtually impossible for me to direct public attention to anything else ... [At Yale Law School] I learned that public policy often took precedence over rule of law." Consequently, he decided to pardon Nixon "to get the monkey off my back one way or the other." Ford adds: "Compassion for Nixon as an individual hadn't prompted my decision...
Willard concedes that only a few of the 38,000 quadriplegic Americans may want to live with a monkey, just as only about 5% of all bund people rely on guide dogs. But she believes a sufficient need exists for less costly live-in assistance. By summer, Willard hopes to obtain foundation funding so she can prepare more of the little organ-grinder monkeys as helpers for the handicapped...
...young writer had started a new life. He planned to marry again: Francine Faure, whose father had also died at the Marne. When Francine's sister observed that Albert's ears stuck out of his head in simian fashion, Francine replied defensively, "The monkey is the animal closest to man." Three years later, the monkey was famous. Meursault, the anti-hero of Camus's first novel, The Stranger, characterized the Absurd Man who lives outside of sentiment or tradition: "Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure...