Word: sinkful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even this moderate, judicious plan is already in jeopardy. Republican leaders in the House, miffed at losing the vote for military aid, have already sworn to sink the package. Meanwhile, Ortega pledged in a speech the day after the vote that Nicaragua would oppose any form of nonmilitary aid to the contras and made the outrageous claim that "we now have full democracy and full freedom of expression in this country." Tell that to the 9 000 political prisoners in Nicaragua and the still heavily-censored editors of La Prensa, the Nicaraguan opposition newspaper...
...told the players to throw everything atthem, except the kitchen sink," Barnaby added,"then pick that up and throw it at them. I was areal fat cat after we won the match...
...only be rooted in our past. (Anything rooted in our future would be too speculative to merit discussion.) The earliest human writers were Cave Men who recorded their activities in Cave Language each day with Cave Pens on Dinosaur Hide. This proved disastrous when the dinosaurs selfishly decided to sink into deep and ubiquitous mud pits that, for advanced scientific reasons, appeared directly under each and every dinosaur far more than 20 years...
...rapidly that even if they wanted to understand Iowa, they would not have time. Hence George Bush talks about debutante parties as if Dubuque were Greenwich, and Gary Hart thinks he can somehow walk away from an indulgent weekend. Pete du Pont promotes school vouchers that just might sink a lot of Iowa community schools already pressed to keep up the high quality established when corn sold high. Though Paul Simon, Richard Gephardt and Bob Dole come from neighboring states, they are power dwellers, long gone from the quiet desperations of Main Street. Anyway, they cannot linger too long. Iowa...
...grabbed the lead. As naval exercises repeatedly demonstrate, a battle for control of the seas would largely be fought underwater. The U.S. Navy wants the Seawolf to track and destroy Soviet missile submarines before they can launch their deadly cargoes, and to neutralize Soviet attack subs before they can sink the U.S.'s vital missile-launching Trident fleet...