Word: tethered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russia has three other main assets: 1) defensive strength based on self-sufficiency and tight political control of its own people; 2) a position within reach of the industrial centers of Western Europe, which are not beyond the logistical tether of the Red army; 3) possession of atomic bombs which might be able to reduce U.S. and other Western production to the level of the U.S.S.R...
...required Budget Bureau summary of the bill and the fact behind it. Madison was a California farmer who had rented to the Forest Service a stallion known as Man of War Jr. One night on the trail, Man of War Jr. felt an urge. He chewed through his tether and ran off to find a mate. It was his last run, for he got tangled in the rope trailing from his neck and died of strangulation. Farmer Madison billed the Forest Service...
...they would chain him and give him all the food, drink, women and tools his heart desired, and after some drinking and some lovemaking he would create masterpieces. But then the misguided British stopped the custom. They said it was slavery. "If any great city in America could tether a hundred young artists, chosen for their inventive faculties," concluded Pound, "that city would within two decades become the center of occidental...