Word: raked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NEXT dream I am a Doctor. My dream opens as I happily rake in the dough from a steady stream of rich old hypochondriacs whom I have advised to visit me every day. Everything is great until a real patient walks...
...wrapper, and condom proper. Not only will sex become more pleasurable for the user with such an exciting message prominently displayed, but the consumer will form pleasurable associations with my name. After this I would only have to put my name on any other shoddy product to rake in dollars like so many dead leaves...
...there in the grasses. He squints as if dialing the eyes to better focus, as if trying to build the platonic lion out of grass. Still the lion will not come. The beast is hidden in the grass like the number in the dot test for color blindness. Rake your gaze into the grass again, staring deeply into it, and slowly the scene develops like a Polaroid picture, taking color and form. The eyes discover that they are staring straight, deeply, into the eyes of a lion -- only the eyes. And the lion is staring straight and deeply back...
...federal raises, its most prominent pensioner has left the constraints of a Government salary far behind. Tip O'Neill in retirement is Tip O'Neill in clover. Had he stayed on as Speaker of the House, O'Neill, 74, would be earning $100,800. In retirement, he stands to rake in as much as $400,000 this year...
...alike, the cargo planes thudded down on the asphalt and roared to a halt on Keflavik's 10,000-ft. runway, disgorging advance teams, communications specialists, security agents, photocopiers, computers, television cameras and cables for this weekend's minisummit 32 miles away in the capital city of Reykjavik (pronounced Rake-yah-veek...