Word: bullfrogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a five-year struggle to pick a politically and environmentally safe site to store nuclear waste material, Congress has settled on a sagebrush-covered ridge in Bullfrog County, Nev. After geological tests are completed, a shaft will be drilled into Yucca Mountain to store up to 70,000 metric tons of radioactive material early in the next century. Louisiana Senator Bennett Johnston, chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, led the effort to halt studies of alternative sites in Texas and Washington State...
...closing tax loopholes, would hardly dent the deficit. Said Republican Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania: "The President's budget is a retreat from last year's budget plan. There is not a lot of leadership." Grumbled Congressman Charles Roemer, a Louisiana Democrat: "Reagan is like a Louisiana bullfrog: all mouth, no guts...
DIED. Judy Canova, 69, pigtailed, bullfrog-voiced singer and hillbilly comedian; of cancer; in Hollywood. One of the most popular radio stars of the 1940s, Canova also mugged and yodeled off-key through some two dozen movies, including Scatterbrain (1940) and Louisiana Hayride...
Throughout the campaign, Denis has been a dutiful fixture at Maggie's appearances, nodding and applauding at the right moments, croaking, "Hear, hear," like a proud bullfrog each time she makes a point. A diligent Norwegian reporter counted 40 "Hear, hears" during a single Thatcher speech a few weeks ago in Yorkshire. Denis has a penchant for the blunt phrase. He routinely refers to trade unionists as "Luddites" and to antinuclear protesters as "Commies." As he once put it, "I don't pretend that I'm anything but an honest-to-God right-winger." After...
With such bounteous raw materials, a meal can be a discovery in itself. On Montserrat, dinner may include "goat water," a ragout of kid, or "mountain chicken," crisp, fried legs of bullfrog. A dish unique to Anguilla is a brochette marinated in pineapple juice and dark molasses; a Creole specialty of St. Barts is a casserole made with cassava, calalu and other tropical vegetables. Conch (pronounced conk) fritters and chowder are delicacies anywhere. The drinks are equally exotic. On Statia, a kind of tea called mauby is made from the bark of a tree; when mixed with rum, they...