Word: pouchful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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British Chancellors of the Exchequer used to enter the House of Commons carrying their estimates in a pouch called a bougette. When the tradition of annual forecasts of total revenues and expenditures was established in England about 200 years ago, the Chancellor's report was called a budget. Ever since then, government finance officers have been trying (sometimes with success) to hold budgets in balance. The U.S. Government, a comparative newcomer to the process, did not adopt the budget system until 1921. Since then, it has been able to strike a balance less than one-third of the time...
...Thought you might like this verse which ran in a recent issue of Punch: Now, as I bear away the most desired Of literary palms, I pouch the dough and televise my hail And my farewell to alms...
...affect to despise Disney, his cartoons are still shown behind the Iron Curtain. Until a few years ago, the Disney organization disclosed, the Russian embassy in Washington would politely ask if they could borrow a Disney print for an embassy showing. The print was then put in a diplomatic pouch, rushed to the airport, flown to Czechoslovakia, copied, flown back to Washington-all in about 72 hours. It was then handed back to Disney, with thanks...
...bulged through it. How the hernia started, they could not tell (it might have been there in milder form since birth), but there was no doubt that it was the cause of much of the Pope's recent gastritis, hiccuping and vomiting. The hernia held food like a pouch, instead of letting it pass straight into the main part of the stomach. Acid and digesting food in the pouch irritated the esophagus and diaphragm, causing hiccups and vomiting...
...agency and cover-up for Moscow's international agents. The dossier on one reporter said: "[He is] drinking himself to abnormality; probably originally a Protestant, not now practicing, married, promiscuous." On another: "[This reporter] also probably holds security job, drinks, married." The dossiers went to Moscow by diplomatic pouch, said Petrov...