Word: barrelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There they go-vrooom!-tearing up 400 yards of Middle America. The two hot-rod drivers are enacting the Automobile Age's axiom of machismo: Speed thrills. Ten seconds later, the cars barrel across the finish line and the winner steps out, shaking her shoulder-length hair, allowing herself a tight, triumphant smile. Shirley Muldowney, dragstrip...
Hundreds of mourners attended a memorial service last week at Kilgore College. Says Kentucky Fried Chicken Supervisor Howard Bailey: "I've been in the grocery business for ten years. I've been held up. I've looked down the barrel of a gun. And the robbers took the money and were gone. This case, however, is very strange...
...most cases of private violence are closer calls. What to do about a man who rapes his wife? What about the fights between spouses that are not pat, villain-and-victim episodes? What about Barrel Trueblood of Terre Haute, Ind., whose son Travis was taken from him for three months in 1980 because the father had punished with the thwack of a ruler? Greg Dixon, a Baptist minister and head of Indiana's Moral Majority, says Trueblood was "just giving a normal whipping." Says he: "Reasonable people can detect whether it's assault and battery...
There are rules regarding the personal customizing of bats, as Yankee Third Baseman Graig Nettles well knows. Several seasons ago, the barrel of Nettles' bat went off embarrassingly and a spray of little rubber balls shot forth. Nettles was the first man ever to bounce out to the third baseman, the shortstop and the second baseman all at once. Recently in Kansas City, he noticed Brett's bat was duty and mentioned it to Coach Don Zimmer...
...Japanese now use a greater amount of precious oil in industries that produce exports. Last year 53.5% of every barrel of oil went to industrial purposes (compared with 29.3% in the U.S.), while only 20.6% went to transportation and 22.2% to heating...