Word: whim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...although observers predict the same outcome if the bill could ever reach the Senate for a vote, state-wide rent control will die next week because this committee is opposed to simply airing the issue. There is no reason to believe that the committee is acting on a mere whim. And there is no reason to believe that the progressive interests of the people of Massachusetts will not be similarly thwarted in future cases. The committee has shown its willingness to stop debate, even where it should be most encouraged...
Actually, the FBI never really kept its files entirely secret. For years the bureau granted selective access, showing files that it chose to, withholding documents at whim. In fact, FBI files, even the tightly guarded ones on Alger Hiss, have been floating around in private hands since as long ago as 1945. Apparently they were leaked to favorable parties for potentially helpful political purposes by the bureau itself...
...swear on my mother, I always said it. I have never understood why the Americans have fallen in love with that interview. I haven't given any importance to the boutade [whim] he said about the cowboy. I thought it was cute, it was arrogant, it portrayed him. But the interview was bad because Kissinger is a very cold man, and he behaved coldly. I was disturbed by his way of receiving...
...quality of life." Those who are discontented with the present are apt to have selective memories of a better past and forget, what went with it- the petty tyrannies that were possible in office, factory or domestic household, where one could lose his job at an employer's whim and could count on few if any benefits if given the sack. But those who in their own lives have since gained by shorter hours, better quarters, safer conditions and coffee breaks have also lost something when they in turn become customers and consumers: a decline in store manners...
...team," Callaway said. He noted that "a lot of Reagan people are not supporters of Rockefeller," and he did not want to discourage them from backing Ford. Rocky diplomatically pointed out the obvious-that a Vice President does not campaign for renomination; his fate lies with the whim of the presidential candidate...