Word: rich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jessie over the radio. The combines, like tanks on night maneuvers, head west, following Venus, which is low and bright in the sky. "We've got it!" Gary Coleman, driver of the lead combine yells back. He slows his machine, turns and lowers the cutting head into a rich wave of uncut field...
...power has passed down to one of his sons, 55-year-old Chalin, president of the five-man parish Commission Council. Unlike his flamboyant father, Chalin comes across as a dark-suited conservative lawyer. His is not the voice of a segregationist, but of a typical official with very rich constituents. "We are one of the most overemployed areas in the United States," he says. And it is true that there are plenty of jobs for blacks as well as whites in the oil and sulfur companies, in fishing and orange growing. "We try to maintain the standards of those...
...Delaware's Republican Senator William V. Roth sees it, there are three distinct classes in the U.S. where higher education is concerned: l)"the very rich," who can afford the best colleges; 2)"the very poor," who can meet skyrocketing costs only because of various aid programs; and 3)"the very taxed," those middle-income Americans who have no easy way to pay their kids' bloated bills. Inflation has kicked their incomes not only into higher tax brackets but also out of the grant and loan market. At the same time, their after-tax income is barely keeping...
...Mario then? He used to go to his brother's in a taxi to borrow money for his kids' shoes. My vision of Mario still is him leaving a building, putting a cigar in his mouth with one hand and holding up his other for a cab. Same vision, rich or poor...
...attack. I had to take a cab to the Veterans Administration Hospital on 23rd Street, got out and fell into the gutter. There I was lying there thinking, here I am, a published writer, and I am dying like a dog. That's when I decided I would be rich and famous...