Word: stall
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Aaab, were you sleepin'?" Irving whispered to a horse in the stall in front of me. "Well, if you're all right now, we'll turn you out." He opened the stall and inside were a horse and a goat...
...criticism built up, the Carswell opponents, particularly Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke and Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, saw a slim chance to defeat him. Continuing to stall, they subjected the loyalists to a kind of drop-by-drop water torture, engineering one-by-one announcements of new anti-Carswell Senators. Then, last month, Brooke, Bayh and others hit upon a device that they thought would allow troubled Senators to sidetrack the nomination without taking the full heat of voting against it. They proposed sending the matter back to the Judiciary Committee for further study ?and there it would almost certainly...
...Nixon Administration's plan to stop inflation by deliberately stalling the economy is chipping away at the jobs of Middle America. As yet, the stall has produced no real relief from rising prices. Unemployment figures for March, released last week, showed the jobless rate up two-tenths of 1%, to 4.4%, highest since 1965. Altogether, 3,700,000 Americans were out of work -1,000,000 more than a year...
...afraid. In Tulsa Dad worked on a derrick and when he came home he was covered with black oil. His hands. Did he know who I was? Did Dad know Merilee had set up house in the shower stall behind the shower curtain in the bathroom? To his wife Ada he said "One more crack like that and as sure as your ass is brown this boy is gone gone gone...
...Council's decision to turn down the Neponset site was hardly surprising nor were the methods that it used to delay and stall that decision as long a possible. Saltonstall has certainly been around City Hall long enough to know about political pressures and chicanery. There was no way that Thomas Atkins, the black councillor from Roxbury, or Joe Timilty, who lives in Mattapan, or Jerry O'Leary, from South Boston, or Louise Day Hicks were going to vote for that proposal. The Council is chosen in an at-large election, but on Monday it was ward politics that were...