Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will inspect beef cattle and beauty queens and shout to everyone that "I am proud of being a politician!" He will tell his audiences that he is sick and tired of hearing that professional politicians are not worthy of trust, that he is fed up with amateurism...
There are strong arguments against giving Chrysler the cash. Opponents cite the British experience of never-ending subsidies to sick companies and its disastrous effect on the taxpayers. G.M. Chairman Thomas A. Murphy argues that federal aid insulates companies from the effects of competition in the marketplace, perpetuates inefficiency and creates unfairness. There is no precedent for what Chrysler wants. In 1971 Lockheed was rescued with a federal loan guarantee for $250 million of its private debt. But that cost the taxpayers nothing, and by the time the Lockheed loans were paid off in 1977, the Government made a profit...
...Laredo, Texas, which each summer sends teachers north to staff its preschool network, using funds from a $4.1 million grant from the U.S. Head Start program. Before such programs existed, says TMC Executive Director Oscar Villarreal, "the infant children had no one to care for them when they were sick. They were left with ten-or twelve-year-old siblings who could not teach them very well because they just didn't know much...
...Contemporary, the journal of the Russian Writers Union, is currently serializing At the Last Frontier by Valentin Pikul. The book is a canny mix of fact and rumor about the monk, whose skill in doctoring the Tsarina's sick son gained him inordinate influence over the royal family in the final decade of the Russian empire. By prudish Soviet standards, Pikul's empurpled prose is downright lurid. In one key scene, for example, Rasputin sneaks up to the Tsarina as she prays for her hemophiliac son. Out of the shadows steps the "bony peasant, his face framed...
...Base Um pire Larry Barnett: "He goes goofy. He can't control himself, screaming, ranting and raving. Every time he comes out, he's shot out of a cannon." As for Weaver, he blithely, if inelegantly, explained: "I was in the bathroom throwing up. They made me sick...