Word: barrelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Organizationally, the odds were always stacked in favor of Marcos and his governing New Society Movement (K.B.L.). The President's war chest bulged with about $160 million in campaign funds, and he also had at his disposal uncounted millions from the government pork barrel...
Despite the presence of four unsightly shanties in the shadow of a huge ice sculpture on Dartmouth Green, there were few visible signs of political discontent. Instead, students seemed bent on festivities like barrel-jumping, skiing, and, of course, beer drinking...
Last weekend's winter carnival--a traditional extravaganza of ice sculptures, barrel jumping, and fraternity parties--was only a temporary reprieve from the recent tension...
...week for their regular semiannual meeting, several wanted to slash prices in order to attract customers. Oil Minister Tam David-West of Nigeria, whose country has foreign debts of at least $22 billion and depends on oil for 95% of its export earnings, threatened to match North Sea competitors "barrel by barrel and cent by cent...
...1930s wind-tunnel shapes appeared everywhere. A gorgeous blue- lacquered maple desk (1933) designed by Paul Frankl avoided the cartoony extremes and actually evoked the future accurately; the piece might have been designed last week. Loewy's pencil sharpener (1934) is delightfully and uselessly aerodynamic, its barrel jutting forward at the angle of a poster- perfect Soviet worker marching into the future. Then there was Buck Rogers as penthouse playboy: Walter Dorwin Teague's lingerie-sexy blue glass radio (1936) and Ely Jacques Kahn's spherical aluminum ice bucket (1940), shiny and synthetically...