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Henry VI was the Jimmy Carter of the 15 th century: Ostentatiously pious, surrounded by mediocrities, and oblivious to England's crumbling international prestige, he managed to cripple the military and bankrupt the government simultaneously.
He said that dropping the tax would bankrupt the state and harm education.
Now there's a move afoot in Congress to end the program, which the paper reports, might well mean a lot of female subcontractors will go bankrupt.
It is not the source of billy , a Scottish dialect word for a milk pail, nor does it have anything to do with the Queensland Aboriginal word bung dead, which passed into Australian pidgin in the 1840s and which developed by the 1880s the application bankrupt, as in the bank's gone bung .
In the following quotation, the reader may have difficulty in determining how far from his wife this ideal husband lives, why he isn't bankrupt from feeding parking meters, and what circumstance might have afflicted him with muteness: