Word: barrelfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leader concluded that OAU support for one faction would make a post-independence fight for political control less likely. He also endorsed Mugabe's argument that majority rule can be won only by armed conflict. Declared Kaunda: "A new Zimbabwe [Rhodesia] can only be born out of the barrel...
...true brew fancier, amber waves of grain mean only one thing: the chief ingredient of beer. Hard-bitten guzzlers find that nothing quenches as happily as the kind that comes straight from the barrel. It can be found on draft, at taverns-the places Patrick Henry called "cradles of liberty." So they still are, only now the liberty is freedom of choice. There, across the stretches of mahogany are pump handles gleaming with the promise of alchemy. Somewhere at the other end of the pipe, malt, hops and yeast have been transformed into a series of heady potions...
...powerful visitors from the world of oil are due at the White House this week: Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd and his Harvard-educated Oil Minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani. The two Saudis may be able to help answer a multibillion-barrel question that has been troubling Western countries for months: Will the price of oil go up again, further threatening the still fragile recovery from recession, or will fuel costs level off for a while...
...Donnell's sketches are very funny (T.V. Weather Report: "Lots of dashed lines in the Northeast.") his talent is spread too thinly over the 14 pieces he authored or co-authored. It is the fault of the Premiere Society that they scraped 14 numbers out of O'Donnell's barrel and only three from Camor's. (Cantor also wrote a Richard Nixon for American Express commercial--"People may know me, but that doesn't mean they'll let me sign for anything...
...Gradual tax increases to boost the price of domestic oil (roughly $8 a barrel) to that of imported oil, which is now about $14.50 a barrel...