Word: overheads
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...talked past midnight, sat in the deck chairs on the sundeck of the "Busted Flush" with the starry April sky overhead, talked quietly, and listened to the night. Creak and sigh of the waves against pilings, muted motor, noises of the fans and generators and pumps aboard the work boats and the play toys...
...Reagan left for a weekend at Camp David, he paused to plug his budget amendment. "Certain House committees have not yet received the message of last November that the people want less bureaucratic overhead in Washington," he said. "We can and we will stop this fiscal joy ride." This week he plans to make speeches on behalf of his budget alternative in San Antonio and Los Angeles. His aides are also considering a national media campaign of commercials, paid for by the Republican National Committee, and perhaps a televised speech by the Administration's No. 1 salesman...
...British army helicopters clattered anxiously overhead, some 50,000 Northern Irish Catholics lined the streets of Belfast last week for an emotional ceremony that was part funeral, part political demonstration. A lone piper led the way as thousands of mourners followed a Daimler hearse bearing a coffin draped in the green, white and orange flag of the Irish Republic. Beside the hearse strode seven hooded members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, dressed in mottled green combat jackets and berets...
...long work, it subsides into a reflective passage in which background vocalists solemnly intone 'DOOM DOOM DOOM' as the showers of a solo violin fall overhead. Then it culminates in an ending chant, with an Eastern/bagpipe-style guitar riff in the Tom Verlaine tradition. Who are the mystery kids? What makes them hopeless Jeffreys never pronounces. Perhaps there is no answer...
...battle gear I followed Stalin to Mayakovsky Station and stood by his side to hear his greatest speech, words that turned the Fascist tide even as they shelled the city overhead ...' His hand shot out to restrain Arkady from going. 'I gave you a name like that, and you come here, a petty detective, to ask about a coward who spent his war hiding in packing cases? Some common snoop, is that all you are?' Arkady rose, more exhausted than he could have imagined, and stumbled on the way to the library door...