Word: pauperize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pauper's Bequest. Though Nixon did not name him, the man he was answering is Wilbur Mills; the House Ways and Means Committee chairman has made plain his implacable opposition to revenue sharing. Normally as cautious in manner as he is with federal spending, Mills has become increasingly bitter over the economic picture presented in Nixon's budget as well as the political potential in the revenue-sharing plan. Mills believes that Nixon's deliberately expansionary budget would produce not the announced $11.6 billion deficit, but one of at least $24 billion and possibly as high...
...fatally struck by two bullets. A policewoman who had been "necking" in the Chevrolet was mortally wounded. Police bullets killed both of them, for before Marighella could whip his gun out of his briefcase, he was riddled with five slugs. Two days later, Marighella was buried in pauper's grave No. 1106 in Sāo Paulo's Vila Formosa cemetery...