Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tempest in an oil barrel...
Illustrated with cartoons by Jack Davis, whose drawings have appeared in Mad for the past 24 years, the report features a barrel-chested, hard-hatted Ashland man wearing the company logo. He explains to two blond, wide-eyed youths the intricacies of revenue figures, operating expenses and tax and depreciation numbers in the course of answering their initial question, "What's Ashland...
...door--the new boyfriend. Behind him stood the man with the gun. "He started to raise it, and I got ready to squeeze one off. But my partner got in the way, and he squeezed one off instead." Added his partner, "All I could see was the barrel of that shotgun--looked this big." Obligingly, one points to the hole in the wall where the bullet hit. Then the gunman fled upstairs--a few minutes later they talked him down to the landing, then wrestled the rifle away from him. "Was the safety off?" "Yeah, turned...
...accelerate production by employing a technique known as water injection, whereby water is forced into wells to make the crude petroleum easier to pump. Result: more oil in the short run, but less in the long term. Some older wells in the Volga-Ural region now pump five barrels of water for every barrel of oil; and the average Soviet well pumps 50% water...
Usually, however, a film is well laundered before the party boss gets to play movie mogul. One director found himself squabbling with censors when he made a comedy about corruption in the wine industry: in one scene a bad barrel was labeled "48," which happened to be precisely the number of years that had passed since the revolution. Was he perhaps implying that the revolution had gone sour too? Another film maker got into trouble when he included a song called Bring Me a Piece of the Moon-during the time that Americans had landed there and the Russians...