Word: papering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...steel shell of the vault was now so hot from the fires raging below that the tiles laid over it were beginning to crack and buckle. We were all drenched in sweat. We were breathing through wet paper towels, very slowly and shallowly, trying to save oxygen...
...ardent womanizer, though, it would seem, odd in his ways. His third wife, an American lady acquired in Beirut, in her excellent little book The Spy I Loved, describes how he wooed her, which involved sending her a whole series of loving messages written on tiny pieces of tissue paper, with instructions to burn them when read and carefully scatter the ash, or, if that should be inconvenient, to swallow them-an illustration of how the fatuities of espionage infect even the practice of seduction...
...stability of the world's banking system, perhaps even calling into question the value of money itself. A number of OPEC nations might even decide that it was wiser to keep oil in the ground instead of pumping up so much of it in exchange for mere paper. At the moment that Banisadr was posturing, U.S. Treasury Secretary G. William Miller was jetting to Saudi Arabia, to try to persuade Persian Gulf leaders not to cut their oil production in the months ahead. He also wanted to assure them that, although the Carter Administration had seized some $8 billion...
...paper. Princeton appears to have the upper hand for this campaign. Barnaby's unparalleled squash smarts and coaching ability, however, do not show up on paper...
...takes some effort to be annoyed by the repetition, because The '80s--edited and written by many of the same people who brought you Not The New York Times--is an ideal excuse to put of writing your Gov paper, to relax with when it's too gauche to drink beer and watch football with your undershirt on, junk food for the intellectual cynic. If read slowly, selectively, this compendium of facetiae should beat just about any conceivable true-to-life rehashes of the grey cripple of a decade that will limp (or roll) off to oblivion in just...