Word: utters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...murder attempt, "Actually, I hope it is me. I'd be an instant hero around the country." Victoria Principal, 30, had to adapt to the shifting of focus from Pamela to J.R., and she seems well adjusted. She calls Pamela "a little Statue of Liberty. When you have utter evil on one side, you can't have mediocre good on the other." Principal, who is herself statuesque enough to have posed for a rearmed Venus de Milo, has been criticized by discriminating voyeurs for changing Pamela from a sexpot to a Gucci Two-Shoes; she replies, "I didn...
...weren't enough that we are subjected to baseball day in and day out, night in and night out, twinight in and twinight out, all through the summer, we now must suffer the utter ludicrousness of football in August. That's right, football in August--when it's 95 degrees outside and the players need to carry portable air-conditioning units on their backs so that they don't faint from heat prostration after running around wearing 300 pounds of uniform...
...budget. The revenues will not be there to equal Government spending. We are going through an extraordinary charade in the budget process, which I'm terribly concerned about. We are eating up very precious political capital on the question of budget balancing. This is surely an exercise in utter futility. As soon as it becomes clearly impossible to balance the budget, that is going to be read as carte blanche to a number of people who want to add new expenditure programs and go full force on spending...
Ignatius' ruling passion is his utter contempt for the modern age; its manifestations make his pyloric valve close, trapping gas in his cavernous stomach. His heart belongs to the early Middle Ages...
Even ambulances were showered with rocks as they tried to pick up victims. One ambulance driver suffered an eye injury when a rock shattered his window. More fires started-about 50 in all-and firemen couldn't get to many of them. "Utter chaos," said one fire department dispatcher. Just before midnight, Governor Bob Graham alerted the National Guard, and 1,000 troopers with M-16 rifles streamed into the embattled city...