Word: bullet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bullet right through your best liver...
...this bullet-biting spirit, the House last week voted hefty increases in Social Security taxes for most U.S. workers and their employers, starting next year. Actually, the Congressmen had no choice. Persistently high unemployment rates have meant a loss of billions in revenue for the system. Benefits for the 30 million people now drawing checks from Social Security are depleting its reserves?$46.1 billion in fiscal 1977?at an accelerating rate. The deficit that year was $5.6 billion. Unless something was done, the system was expected to go broke by the early 1980s. To keep it from drowning...
...When he climbed back aboard, Mahmud confronted him in a towering rage. "Are you guilty or not guilty?" he yelled, forcing the pilot at gunpoint to kneel at the head of the cabin aisle. Then Mahmud placed a pistol in Schumann's face and killed him with one bullet. After that, one passenger said later, "we didn't have any hope left...
...humiliation integral to many of the quack therapies (such as EST's day-long sessions with two rest periods, no cigarettes or alcohol, just a barrage of ideology that costs $300.) But the message, in the end, will most likely be bald in the extreme: "Bite the bullet...
...life of their own; we are introduced to each gradually, as Morrison peels back the layers of Milkman's present. There is his paternal grandfather, the first Macon Dead--a freeholding farmer who taught his children to love being alive before he was killed by a white man's bullet. There are Milkman's siters, who emerge from the sterile silence that surrounds them at the book's opening to become strong characters in their own right. The world has forced them into sterility, and Milkman's recognition of that fact alters his view of the world. The apparent perversity...