Word: sayers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...debate began last week with a verbal explosion touched off by--who else?--the Administration's self-appointed sayer-out-loud of the politically unthinkable: Budget Director David Stockman. At a Senate Budget Committee hearing, he was asked what relief the Administration was willing to extend to farmers who are unable to repay their loans. His reply: "For the life of me, I cannot figure out why the taxpayers of this country have the responsibility to go in and refinance bad debt that was willingly incurred by consenting adults who went out and bought farmland when the price was going...
...many people go into the profession, which they know it or not, because someone filled the classroom for them with affectionate attention. When the look I give a student conveys a particularly challenging attitude of good expectation, some of that attitude comes straight from my fourth-grade teacher, Florence Sayer. The student I'm looking at sees a look that was directed at me in 1951, and that had been in use in dingy green classrooms as early as 1933. There was some toughness in that look--there was more toughness in that...
...return for the annual retainer mailed to our sooth-sayer on Mt. Olympus, he has provided us with these predictions...