Word: plushest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...write tax laws which permit these conditions to exist, which invite their persistence. It's not only a matter of taxes being levied relatively heavily on working people-though it is hard. But the rich can jump through loopholes like trained acrobats, a businessman can go to the plushest restaurant in El Paso with a friend and after three courses and two drinks apiece write the whole thing off as tax deductible. Well that's great for him, his friend and the Alka-Seltzer people...
...function in this process as a sacred ministry of leveller priests on the assembly line. Ferrying the executives across the Styx which we call be many names--Hudson, East, Cuyahoga, Detroit, Los Angeles, or Bay; ferrying souls from West Point or the East side or poshest Cleveland or plushest Bloomfield Hills, or from the splendors of Westwood or Nob Bill, ferried in radial punctureproof silence to those lushest immortal gardens of bones which match each heavenly city of America. Whatever the name they are all Forests of Yawns, Kingdoms of Yawns, the end of Dawns. Terminals...
...found a discarded wooden-shafted No. 5 iron, sawed it down to size and began hitting horse apples. Bored with make-believe, he eventually "made me a two-hole course in the pasture, and when they cut the hay in summer I had me the plushest course you ever...
...little more and it will be done. Ten million trillion zillion dollars for a jeweled silk-and-leather nail file case. Phew! We're almost there. Very soon we'll never need anything more ever again. We have solved necessity and in those very stores, the richest and the plushest ones, we are about to become God Himself...
That policy has already caused some notable casualties. Last month the dust sheets went over the chemin de fer tables at Crockford's, which ranked as one of London's oldest and plushest gambling clubs. Founded in 1827, Crockford's was forced to close because its owners' backgrounds did not meet the rigid standards of the new gambling code. George Raft's Colony Sporting Club on Berkeley Square is also shuttered, and Raft himself has been declared persona non grata by the Home Office. Other closings will certainly follow; by year's end Britain...