Word: tiring
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...floormats, unsmelled. These cars to be remaindered. Their loss to the nation would in a sense be a measure of the boy's unfulfilled responsibility, a symbol of his removal from the social machinery. His capacity to do good for his fellow citizens was as fleeting as the tire tracks on the sand. Foul though it was, he loved the car and sought some sort of integrity in its final purposes...
...firmly took no such position was Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Chairman Russell DeYoung. His company's illegal donation, he testified, "was made solely because we thought the re-election of the President was in the best interest of the country." Republican Senator Lowell Weicker, after getting DeYoung to concede that the company disclosed its contribution only when it was clear that federal investigators were getting close, commented: "I'd say it's a pretty sorry day for Goodyear." Snapped DeYoung: "Not necessarily...
...Ashland Oil Inc. ($100,000); Gulf Oil Corp ($100,000); Braniff Airways Inc. ($40,000); American Airlines ($55,000); Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. ($40,000); 3M Co. ($30,000); Phillips Petroleum Co. ($100,000). Employees of an eighth, the American Ship Building Co., testified that they cooperated in donating $26,200 in corporate funds to Nixon's campaign, but the company itself has admitted no wrongdoing...
...President, who served as an attorney in the tire-rationing branch of the Office of Price Administration in 1942, is expected to receive proposals for rationing gasoline and heating oil within a month. A task force in the Office of Management and Budget is weighing several options for regulating fuel consumption. Among them...
...final piece, The Haffner Symphony is marked by terrific energy--which is just as well considering that it was past 1 a.m. when the piece began. Thanks to Hammer, the audience was still wide-awake, but the orchestra was beginning to tire. Still the outer movements were particularly enjoyable and the evening ended with a fine flourish...