Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subject of O'Neill's derision was that basic concern of practically every American: taxes. President Carter last winter proposed a tax cut of $24.5 billion to stimulate the economy, as well as a series of controversial "reforms" highlighted by a levy drying up the "three-martini lunch" as a business deduction. But as the economy recovered, the House Ways and Means Committee reduced the tax cut and threw out almost all the reforms as well...
...Kennedy just gave the word." Even if Kennedy doesn't give the word, some politicians believe that they can make him a candidate anyway. Last week a group of influential state chairmen met privately in Washington to discuss Kennedy's prospects. One notion was to use this winter's Democratic Party midterm conference as an opportune setting to whip up enthusiasm for Kennedy...
...preferred the imaginative one, the smooth, clever Jacob who sat in my tent watching the rages of Isaac turn first on the son within himself, the pitiful kitten fathered by a lion, careful of its stride, watching slow rage then turn on us like the thunder of winter sleet driving in from the mountains. So it wasn't for Jacob alone I schemed to steal Esau's blessing, laughing, giddy, a tenor different from Abraham's hard laugh...
...many wear their hair in unkempt dreadlocks. They "recycle" their refuse by dumping it in the yard, a practice that attracts hordes of rats. MOVE mothers give birth naturally, biting off their babies' umbilical cords. Their children do not attend school and usually go naked-even in winter. Members also reject burial; at one point they showed reporters the shriveled corpse of a month-old baby who had died from undisclosed causes...
...weekly tutoring pupils in English. "We are just ordinary people." Perhaps so. But it remains to be seen how long Christina, who longs for some peace and quiet, will be able to stand all the peace and quiet she is likely to get during the long, cold Moscow winter...