Word: raring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eyes were tinted red, and the lines beneath them were more pronounced than usual. As he strode toward the narrow lectern in the Executive Office Building, he forced only a slight smile. In rare defeats in the past Jimmy Carter has kept himself grimly in control. But as he announced Budget Director Bert Lance's resignation last week, Carter twice almost lost his composure. Voice choking, eyes misting with tears, the President paused, bit his lip and declared: "Bert Lance is my friend...
...public, Jimmy Carter permitted himself a rare display of deep emotion. In private, the President and Bert Lance, both born-again Christians, read from the Bible, bowed their heads in the Oval Office, and prayed. All the while, the Budget Director's proud wife LaBelle insisted that her husband had brilliantly cleared himself of wrongdoing, and appealed directly to the President that her husband stay in office. But the close-knit Georgians turned in the end to the advice of shrewd Washington veterans and wisely ended Lance's eight-month career as Director of the Office of Management...
...author's next-to-last act of naiveté. For The Spy Who Came In from the Cold earned enough to bankroll the whole Foreign Office staff. Graham Greene granted it a rare encomium: "The best spy novel I have ever read." Three and a half million readers agreed. Cornwell handed in his resignation and assumed the identity of John le Carré, thriller writer...
Even Volpone is bemused by the ease with which he has gulled his fellows. "What a rare punishment," he says, "is avarice to itself." Or undeserved success, for that matter: in the end Volpone is undone by his unquenchable desire to prove himself superior...
ACCURATE FORECASTS of how many students will be able to leave the Quad are as rare as an uncrowded River suite. But the outlines of the situation suggest that leaving the Quad will be harder to do this year than in the past. As part of the Fox plan's conscious effort to make the Quad more desirable, the Housing Office switched 45 upperclass Quad residents to the River--five to each House. In doing so. University Hall aimed to reduce Quad density to the point where no Quad rooms would be doubles, as some had been in past years...