Word: swellingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...budget summiteers in Washington seemed to feel no such ground swell, at least not last week. The group is losing a race against the calendar for an agreement on a bipartisan package of spending reductions and revenue increases before Nov. 20, when $23 billion in arbitrary cuts will take hold under the Gramm-Rudman law. The committee began the week with optimism all around, based on a plan proposed by House Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois that would cut the deficit by $30 billion in fiscal 1988 and $45.5 billion in 1989. Michel's proposal was considered a breakthrough...
...never know how you will react to a scream until you hear one. I can tell you how you will react at first. You will freeze. Your head will snap like an alarmed bird's and your eyes will swell, long before any practical choices begin to form between hiding under the bed and leaping to the rescue. You will freeze because you will recognize the sound. It comes from you; all the panic and the pain; all the screams of one's life, uttered and quashed, there in that dreadful eruption that has scattered the air. All yours...
...traditionalist remembers the old 8-team leagues with fondness, and tends to favor the survivors. Shades of Ty Cobb, and all that. The National League was even easier. I decided finally to let bygones be bygones. It has been almost 30 years after all--and San Francisco is a swell place. I would finally forgive Horace Stoneham and root for the old New York Giants on the West Coast. The warm memories flooded...
Fortunately, after a couple of hours we were picked up by the "Up With People" touring company, so everything was pretty cool. They taught us some neat songs we all could lip-synch along with, including some old Captain and Tennille tunes. We had a swell time until the peyote set in and we started to have vicious hallucinations and were forced to kill and eat "Up With People...
...ground swell of public opinion against Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court is understandable ((NATION, July 13)). His reliance on original intent precludes the notion that the Founding Fathers originally intended us to evolve as a people into something better than we were. The nation, and indeed the President's legacy, would be better served by a Justice who views the Constitution as a living part of the present rather than a relic from the past...