Word: raring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rare occasion when he can relax at home with his wife of 36 years, "Loki." Their modest residence, situated on the Rhine within sight of the I Chancellery, is furnished in modern-functional style and decorated with expressionist and impressionist paintings. Bookcases are filled with volumes on history and economics. Schmidt occasionally relaxes with a mystery story, preferably by Agatha Christie, plays Bach or Mozart on a large electric organ, or challenges his wife at chess and double solitaire. He hates to lose at chess, as well as politics; when he does, he is apt to rail...
...teaching-fellow-run tutorials, Faculty members are generally reluctant to follow up their votes with action. No professor claims to oppose the principle of teaching tutorials, and most would agree that professors are the best possible tutorial leaders, but research commitments and understaffed departments make Faculty-taught tutorials a rare commodity. Bowersock notes that the '60s brought a flood of graduate students to the campus, and as a result, some Faculty members view the phenomenon of a professor-led tutorial as "an abnormal practice...
Democrats who urge tax breaks for business used to be as rare as Southern supporters of memorials to Ulysses S. Grant, but that was before Oklahoma Congressman James Robert Jones started working the corridors. As the party's primary advocate of liberalized depreciation rules, Jones is at the fore of a neoconservative fiscal bandwagon that is straining the old free-spending coalitions of the New Deal and the Great Society. He is also one of the most effective and fastest rising members of Congress...
...declares peace on the neighboring Republic of Mbonga to win U.S. foreign aid, then calls it off when he learns he would have to take the aid in weapons. "Writing a column beats honest work," says Hoppe. "It leaves the mornings free for other projects, such as writing rare books. In my case, the books are extremely rare...
Though Stoller insists that only a few rare individuals may achieve excitement without any traces of hostility, he is not entirely pessimistic: many contented people, he allows, have clearly been able to outweigh hostility with affection and a capacity for closeness...