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Word: sandbag (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retirement benefits for elderly workers. To encourage firms to sign up teenagers, the government will pay $28 for every employee under 18 who earns $74 a week or less. The proposals were immediately dismissed by opposition Labor Party leaders as trying to "stem a flood tide with a sandbag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: About-Face | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

Rosalynn met her husband at the helipad when he arrived in Plains. When he told her the grim news, she was incredulous. She spent the rest of the morning fighting to maintain control, looking as if she had been hit in the stomach with a sandbag. On the flight to Washington after voting in Plains, they were finally alone in their forward cabin. They broke down together and cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: When Jimmy Knew | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

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