Word: rods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...makes its way by post between these points. "The new octogenarian feels as strong as ever when he is sitting back in a comfortable chair," the author observed. "In a moment he will rise and go for a ramble in the woods, taking a gun along, or a fishing rod, if it is spring. Then he creaks to his feet, bending forward to keep his balance, and realizes he will do nothing of the sort...
Single people speak of other single people as being "geographically undesirable." Such is traffic. The morning paper ran a feature on people driving around with entire wardrobes hanging from a rod suspended over the back seat, the easier to spend the night far from home and go to work the next day in a fresh outfit. "Liberation," said a liberated woman reader, "has turned us into goddamned gypsies...
...however, the political heat of unpopular decisions falls largely on the Premier; hence Fabius remained the golden boy of the Socialist team. Although political analysts knew that Mauroy's days were numbered, most assumed that he would remain in place through the fall to act as a lightning rod for attacks on the tightfisted 1985 budget. But the left's dismal showing in the European elections forced Mitterrand to act. A fortnight ago, he withdrew his controversial legislation to bring the country's private schools under greater state control and announced that he would launch a complicated...
School Superintendent King justified the severe beating of the youngsters, ages five to 17, by quoting Scripture, Proverbs 22:15: "Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him." I would answer him: "The devil quotes Scripture to suit his purpose...
...past couple of decades is, appropriately enough, a mystery. But Gregory Mcdonald is appealingly fresh and impudent in his tales of Fletch, the irreverent reporter, and Flynn, the Boston supercop. The civilized and resourceful Inspector Francis Xavier Flynn is on duty here, spying out malefaction at something called the Rod and Gun Club, a secretive woodsy preserve for male members of the Eastern ruling class...