Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...president of IRI Finelettrica, one of the five largest electric companies in Italy before nationalization, ENEL has at least had the benefit of levelheaded management. From the start, Di Cagno has steadfastly resisted political pressures from the left and right, refused to permit the agency to become a pork barrel. All of ENEL's 828 executives come from the old companies, but most of its problems are the fault of nationalization itself...
...glass-skinned building as a 9-lb. shell splashed into the East River just 200 yds. away. In a weed-strewn lot on the opposite bank, 900 yds. away, police later found a 3.5-in. Army bazooka, still aimed at the U.N., with a Cuban flag taped on the barrel...
...obvious that Eagle coach Bob Cousy had drilled, and drilled, and drilled his charges on the mechanics of the break. As soon as B.C. got a rebound, Austin would barrel down the middle of the court with one player on his left and one on his right. As they passed midcourt, the two men on the outside converged toward Austin, and began to work legerdemain with their passing. Even if two or three Crimson players had scrambled into the backcourt to defend, the only way of stopping the blits was to commit a foul or pray that a B.C. player...
...glove compartment of his Lincoln and is fast on the draw. A few months after Jack Kennedy's death, Johnson declared: "If anybody tried to do anything to me, the Judge would get him before anybody." Moursund also keeps a .30-caliber rifle with a nickel-plated barrel clipped under the front seat of his car. Explains he: "When you have to shoot a rattlesnake, pistols aren't worth a damn...
...Bidone. Round and solemn as a barrel of holy water, a fat old bishop (Broderick Crawford) rolls ponderously out of a big black automobile and stands staring at a huddle of Italian peasants. "My children," he informs them in a sanctimonious monotone, "I bring you tidings of great sorrow and good fortune. During the last war, a man was murdered and a treasure hidden on the land you own." The peasants, quivering with avarice, scuttle off to the appointed spot and dig up the treasure: an iron casket crammed with smoldering brilliants. "Worth at least six million lire," the bishop...