Word: pocketbooks
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Then Senator Bob Taft took to the radio and unlimbered the Republican artillery. With a cold eye on the nation's pocketbook, he riffled through the President's list of proposed legislation. Said Bob Taft: "The Federal Government comes forward again as Santa Claus himself." The whole list of requests, Taft estimated, would run to around $10 billion a year in new expenses. Asked Taft: "Where is this money coming from...
...time three-quarters of the student body availed itself of the facilities of professional tutoring. There was no pretense that the "schools" were merely giving occasional assistance to conscientious students having trouble with a particularly hard course. They offered a complete "Harvard" education at a price to fit every pocketbook...
...first three years in the pro loop, Jacunski had it rough. He played second string behind the incomparable Don Hutson. "The little exercise kept me in good shape," says Harry, "but it wasn't exactly healthy for the pocketbook...
...taking the two o'clock out to the Cape. He quickened his pace. A fast lunch of chicken salad and iced coffee in Lowell House, and he would be off. Crossing Bow Street he bumped into a pretty girl, rather well-rounded at the edges. He picked up her pocketbook, handed it to her, and hesitating a moment to think of something to say, and then deciding not to, walked on. Finals seemed far away. And it was very hot, and Vag knew that he was entitled to a vacation, though it would be only two days...
...might turn out to be his most costly. Nicaraguan resistance is becoming more insistent. The resistance is not the formless anger of ragged peasants, but the pocketbook hate of ranchers and businessmen who have seen Somoza muscle into their territory. And after such a bald usurpation of power, Somoza has few friends in the Governments of sister American republics...