Word: sillier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Small Business Administration or through ad hoc measures. One example: the increase in mail subsidies approved by Congress two weeks ago to help some ailing airlines deal with hard times. In a recent editorial, the Wall Street Journal charged that the idea of an RFC revival was "sillier than a WIN button" because it would only increase the Government borrowing that has helped put companies in a capital squeeze. Economist Henry Kaufman, a partner of Salomon Bros., a Wall Street brokerage house, argues that federal billions could best be used to finance projects offering a long-term return...
...than the later Tahitian Treat model with Marlon Brando and the entire native population of the South Pacific. Bagie's at the Brattle, it being that time again, and Citizen Kane, at the Orson Welles as of Sunday, is always worth a look, even though the Rosebud bit looks sillier and sillier with every viewing...
...those he knew to have helped plot the crime. Instead, he publicly denied any advance knowledge of the affair, ridiculed the notion that the re-election committee had anything to do with it and dismissed reports that he was personally implicated with a brusque: "The stories are getting sillier all the time...
...speculation rose about Mitchell's involvement, the nation's onetime law-enforcement chief remained remarkably calm. Publicly, he scoffed at it all. "The stories are getting sillier all the time, aren't they?" he commented to a reporter. But TIME has learned that Mitchell's grand jury testimony at week's end was both self-incriminating and sensational...
...banner. Jammed in a two and a half inch space, the paper now carries the full name of both parents, an edition box, a silly little weather box with a pup and an umbrella for partly cloudy, a drenched little-leaguer for rain, and so on. Even sillier, the afternoon edition comes out with virtually the same material, but with the order of the banner reversed: instead of the morning Boston Herald Traveler and Boston Record American, it's the Boston Record American and Boston Herald Traveler. And the Luftwaffer eagle on the Record's must gives reason to think...