Word: skinflint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sighed. "I said I have to help you rectify your mistake before it is over-whelmingly obvious to everyone that you're a skinflint, and I want to get done by 11, so let's hurry up before it gets too late...
While standing on his own record as a legislator who brings home the bacon for New Hampshire. D'Amours has tried to dismember Humphrey's reputation as a "skinflint" (D'Amours himself refuses junkets and pay raises voted by Congress). Last week the Democrat claimed that Humphrey, in his position on a military preparedness subcommittee, spent "$78 billion in five hours and 49 minutes. That's three million a second...
...being known as a nickel squeezer. In his first term he has so far proudly returned $560,000 in unspent office funds to the U.S. Treasury. In a state where talk of taxation is political suicide, Humphrey, 44, boasts, "Six years ago I promised I would be the toughest skinflint in Washington, and I've kept that promise...
...finding that the market is less bullish. Furthermore, 18 minor-league players were drafted by big-league clubs during last week's meetings; a year ago, just ten players were selected. The Oakland A's-reviving under General Manager-Manager Billy Martin and flush with funds since Skinflint Owner Charlie Finley sold the team to Levi Strauss Chairman Walter A. Haas Jr. last summer-have passed up the free-agent market in favor of acquiring minor-league clubs to develop young players. Other clubs are following suit...
...seemed hurt when outsiders found him as obnoxious as he tried to be. He was also, as his letters reveal, generous in praising contemporaries like Graham Greene, George Orwell and Anthony Powell and encouraging to such newcomers as Louis Auchincloss and Thomas Merton. He was not entirely the Tory skinflint that his denunciations of the welfare state suggested; he assigned a number of foreign royalties to Catholic charities. His prejudices were surprisingly flexible. He enjoyed mocking the U.S. and calling its citizens "louts"; yet he told his agent to withhold publishing rights from Communist countries because they "might use Loved...