Word: rugs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...COLUMBUS, Ohio Governor John Gilligan was refurbishing his statehouse office at a cost of $41,000 when the freeze forced him to renege on promised wage increases for state employees. Responding to public pressure, Gilligan cut back on the remodeling. He decided against a $5,000 Oriental rug and had an old one returned to his office...
...dual school system and for support of all those school officials who are forthrightly carrying out their legal obligations. Unfortunately, the President's statement almost certainly will have the opposite effect." One embittered HEW staffer conceded that the school officials "are more confused now," adding, "they feel the rug has been pulled from under them." Busing, as the President well knows, is widely unpopular both North and South; yet some communities are beginning to get used to it. Besides, critics feel that Nixon's stand will damage the cause of integration quite apart from the busing question. Complained...
...Chiang and his son and heir, Chiang Ching-kuo, 61, who is stubborn and tough like his father, had no illusions about the erosion of the position on which they have built their lives. As Taipei's Ambassador to the U.N. complained candidly: "The U.S. has pulled the rug out from under our feet in the U.N. The damage to us is immeasurable." The proposed Nixon trip, he said, shows that "Communist intransigence pays off" and "hands a prestige victory to the Communists on a silver platter...
...could we know that the violinist would sit in the room next door and cry, as rug, walls and violin gathered dust? How could we know that the Merit Scholar would run up and down the hallways for exercise, shouting the lyrics to "Rockabye Baby"? How could we know that the Shakespeare expert would sneak around the dorm at night stealing food from everybody's rooms? That the poet, our roommate, would never get out of bed? That the biochemist, three doors down, never slept? That the aristocrat would run away, leaving behind only her collection of bottlecans? How could...
...unquestionably graphic enough. Regan MacNeil, the twelve-year-old daughter of a movie actress, begins to act peculiar. She urinates on the living room rug in front of company. She uses a crucifix as a dildo. She grows incredibly strong and becomes the prime suspect in the brute-force slaying of a lovable drunken movie director. Her schoolwork suffers...