Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...firms, their outside income is often higher than that of House members. Senator Hubert Humphrey, .for example, earned $81,000 in speaking engagements in one year, George McGovern $80,000. (Humphrey has never been secretive about such benefits; a sign in his Waverly, Minn., home proclaims: THE HOUSE THAT WIND BUILT.) Yet the limitation is expected to pass. Explaining the prevailing sentiment, one supporter of the code said: "People who come to the Senate rich can't be made poor. But people who come to the Senate poor shouldn't leave rich...
...chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission until April 1, so the Hillses are putting off a decision on whether to return to the Los Angeles law firm that they founded 15 years ago. Says Stanley Pottinger, who is remaining at the Justice Department for a few months to wind up his investigation of past abuses by the FBI: "This is the first time since law school that I've been at a point where anything is possible again, and I'm finding it exciting...
...embarrassingly thin volume, Redneck Power: The Wit and Wisdom of Billy Carter sells for $1.50, yet went through its first printing of 210,000 within a week. Billy had nothing to do with the book and even made some noises about legal action when he got wind of it. But the book did make him that much more marketable...
...glowed dimly through clouds of gritty dust. "I'm guessing that we got wiped out today," he reported, "but I'm not about to go out into the fields to find out-the air is so black I might get lost." In eastern Colorado, too, gusts of wind up to 90 m.p.h. scooped up the drought-dry topsoil, hurling some five tons of the precious dirt off each acre of land during a 24-hour storm. Observed Rod Johnson, a federal agriculture official: "The eastern three-fourths of Kiowa County is moving...
With his typical Ralph Cramden deadpan, Gleason has been known to compare golf to a chary woman, saying "you know you're not going to wind up with anything but grief, pal, but you can't resist the impulse...