Word: spouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more distressing aspects of the recent Baird/Wood imbroglio involved listening to paleo-liberals like Anna Quindlen, Ellen Goodman and Patricia Ireland spout pieties about the availability of childcare...
...think it's unfair, I just think it's unnecessary," said Matin J. Connealy, manager of the Harvard Provision Co. "[They should have] a stricter control on the spout rather than a sting operation...
Kerrey dances around everything. So far in his nascent stumping, he's shown a tendency to spout support for whatever sounds interesting or popular, and a refusal to mount a strong offensive against President Bush--without which the Democrats will self-destruct. Beyond some broad strokes of Democratic posturing, Kerrey's just not there. And when you do pin him down, his ideas all seem just to come down to personal experiences--especially Vietnam...
...whale is hunted down by the great-great-grandson of Captain Ahab, Lieut. General Ahab. Backed by the United Nations, Ahab blasts Moby Dick out of the water. From a land base, the intransigent mammal denies U.N. inspectors the right to see his spout, suggesting that Moby-Dick...
...final jingle of change through the slot above the lion-head spout served a cup of coffee for eternity. Last week Horn & Hardart closed the nation's last surviving Automat, on New York City's 42nd Street, two blocks east of Grand Central station. First opened in 1912, the cafeterias served 400,000 customers a day at their peak in the early 1950s. Famous actresses, well-heeled businessmen and just plain folks plunked their coins into glass-and-chrome dispensers to feast on such fare as Boston baked beans, macaroni and cheese and coconut-custard...