Word: pocketbook
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...Pocketbook Protesters. Yet Republican leaders concede that at best their hopes are fragile; they could easily be undermined by events. No one can be certain that the South Vietnamese can handle Communist insurgency without massive U.S. help-and any U.S. re-escalation of the war could trigger a broader public protest than before. Crime, pollution, and deterioration in the quality of urban life are accelerating despite political rhetoric. It will take imagination, painful decisions-and much money-to reverse the trends. The danger of a recession, coupled with inflation, is the biggest threat of all to the G.O.P...
...slapdash makeup jobs; no lectern to hide behind. Ailes kept the set simple, the colors manly. Once Chicago set designers tried to use oh-so-chic turquoise curtains as a back drop. "Those stupid bastards," railed Ailes. "Nixon wouldn't have looked right unless he was carrying a pocketbook...
...idea for the course came last spring from 50 girls in Mabel Daniels Hall, who petitioned Miss Paget for instruction in self-defense. "We felt that Cliffies should be offered instruction in what to do when someone snatches a pocketbook, grabs your wrist, or pulls a knife on you," said Marilyn De Vries, author of the petition. Students at the Radeliffe Graduate Center also asked for a cause in self-defense...
...Following the defeat of the Journal in the '30s?? the Crime's? next major opponent was the commercial tutoring schools. In 1939, when its conscience would have been hurt more by complacency than its pocketbook was injured by ?? the paper rejected advertising from what it called the intellectual branches and began a crusade which saw their abolition within a year...
That was the old feminism, and its intent was not really to eliminate man but to reduce the power of his pocketbook. The new feminism that underlies a soppy little fable called Thank You All Very Much derives from the praying mantis. Man-a brief biological interlude-is to be casually discarded after procreative use. A girl can have her baby and keep it in single bliss. Sufficient unto the self is the self...