Word: spedding
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...Jewish, aren't you?" asked one of my student hosts as we sped along the highway. "Because we have a lot of Jews here. And they sure stick together, those Jews. They say we exclude them, but let me tell you something. They exclude...
Aqua-Chem sped production and delivery of the purifiers, which were originally part of a $31 million, 98-unit order that the military placed with the firm in 1987. The company plans to ship three more mobile units to the army next spring...
...problem will vanish, the earth will get well. The mind billows off to locate better memories, if it can (old glories, myths of its own innocence, old muscles, resources long since squandered, wars won when the nation was young and saved the world, when its virtue shone and sped by on tail fins). Americans con themselves with nostalgias. Was it during the 1980s under Ronald Reagan, the child of an alcoholic, that the addiction to this dreaming got out of hand...
...believe they have already said too much about taxes without getting anything in return -- and aides point to the President's slipping approval ratings to prove it. In fact, the Administration's inept handling of its plan to cut back state and local income tax deductions two weeks ago sped the talks' collapse. At one point, both sides were close to pulling off what Darman calls "a no fingerprints" budget, in which each party simultaneously put forth complete budget plans. By doing so, says one aide, "no party could take advantage of the other." But the immaculate conception failed when...
...student, he had joined the Baath Party, an underground anti-Western, pan-Arab socialist movement. The party put him on a team assigned to murder Iraq's military ruler, Abdul Karim Kassem. Saddam and his confederates sprayed Kassem's station wagon with machine-gun fire as it sped through downtown Baghdad, but they missed their target. Although bodyguards killed several of the assailants, Saddam escaped with a bullet in his left leg. In the glorified words of his own hagiography -- the truth is less dramatic -- he carved out the bullet himself with a razor dipped in iodine, then disguised himself...