Word: unwrap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks Congress has stalled the Administration's $5.3 billion omnibus education bill, containing aid for everyone from preliterate tots to illiterate adults. Last week the White House wearily agreed to let Congress unwrap the package and choose among the goodies. Prognosis: passage for perhaps $1.2 billion in aid for college construction, but probable death for aid to public schools...
...days later a young woman would come over--they use women more over there--with a package wrapped in brown paper about this big." Here he chopped with his hands, cutting off a piece of air the size of a large loaf of bread. He continued, "You'd unwrap it, and there would be a stack of ruble notes. You would both look at it for a moment or so and then wrap it up again and march off to a bank and deposit...