Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bankers, politics and aid. A banker has got to look at it cold turkey. He's got to look at minimum operating capital requirements and the debt-to-equity ratio. At the moment the bankers say, "We think we have done all we can." Well, we don't think they have. In Washington they ask me: "You won't come back for more money, will you? Once we do it and help you, don't come back a second time." Well, I'd rather not go to Washington at all; I'd rather figure...
...eating a quiet dinner the other night, counting the peas and carrots in my turkey pot pie, when I noticed that a very burly, almost-rabid lineman was inserting a custard-filled eclair into my right...
...three stalked away, I noticed my turkey pot pie had congealed. The hazards of being a reporter, I concluded. I had to admit, though, those guys had spunk...
...turkey vultures, hanging on new thermals, tilt their wings, looking for food. Schlesinger studies them silently. They make his point about the rituals of survival. Especially in moments of apparent tranquillity...
...like somebody forced kerosene under your skin and every once in a while they set fire to it. I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep, I felt depressed." This description of going cold turkey was voiced last week not by a typical junkie but by Dr.William Thomas of Long Beach, Calif. Like the priest, banker, teacher and housewife who told similar tales at a Senate health subcommittee hearing, the doctor was not addicted to heroin. He and the others were hooked on so-called minor tranquilizers, particularly Valium, the nation's bestselling prescription drug...