Word: stomp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman of no previous wealth inherited a hatful of money, bought a big house and some farm land and assumed matriarchal ways. This was Gram, who had five daughters and, though no one seemed to think the fact very important, a husband. Her style was regal-she would stomp out at night to play bingo whenever she felt like it-and her son-in-law Dan the butcher called her the Queen of Persia. She sheltered, in her take-it-or-leave-it way, her unmarried daughters and whatever married ones happened, at any given moment, to have found their...
Heller maintains that the fundamental flaw of current economics policy is that the Administration is battling high prices by tight monetary policy alone, leaving fiscal policy too loose. Said he: "You simply can't step on the fiscal gas and simultaneously stomp on the monetary brakes without generating a terribly bumpy economic ride." Heller and other liberals on the board would like to see some agreement among the Administration, Congress and the Federal Reserve that would result in both significantly lower interest rates and budget deficits...
Even in confinement, the horses refuse to give up easily. They stomp and batter at the grating, and resist every effort to trailer them to a larger enclosure. Robison must cut off the colts from their mothers for the trip to the adoption distribution center. One young upstart sends him flying against the fence, and it takes his best hammerlock to wrestle him down...
Black folks cheer his music; rednecks stomp and holler. He's a pop sensation, from The Bronx to the Hollywood Bowl, and a wonderful human being to boot. So where's the dramatic tension? It comes from an unlikely source: the 1925 Samson Raphaelson play and the Al Jolson movie version that ushered in the talkies. There is no Mammy in the new Jazz Singer; there's not even a momma. But the plot is the same: a young Orthodox cantor wants to become a singing star, straining to break the shackles of tradition even...
...trouble." Then he hit upon an exotic ploy. Lye got three llamas, those feisty beasts with keen eyesight, fearsome spit, a mean kick-and a passable resemblance to sheep. At first the coyotes were buffaloed. Every time they came down for a hit the llamas would spit, then stomp and slash with their front hooves. "For two weeks, they were effective," says Lye. "Then the coyotes figured them out. They are the shrewdest predator that there...