Word: barrelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...climactic confrontation began when the Democratic House attached to its version of the continuing resolution a $5.4 billion "jobs program." The bill was a pork barrel brimming with public works projects: clearing Cow Castle Creek in South Carolina, rehabilitating a raceway in California, funding a tree-planting program, and repairing military housing facilities. Reagan, who vetoed a continuing resolution a year ago because he wanted more spending on defense and less on domestic programs, was infuriated. "I don't give a damn if it's Friday night and the Government is brought to a standstill," he told Republican...
...business with remarkable efficiency. Near midnight two of the bandits, dressed in ski masks and gloves, climbed onto the roof of the two-story Sentry building. Using metal-cutting tools, they sawed a 2-ft. hole in the roof and lowered themselves down a rope. Armed with a double-barrel shotgun, they gagged and handcuffed the only guard on duty. A crowbar was used to break the locks off the metal door to the basement "money room." There, some $30 million in cash and food stamps sat in bags behind a floor-to-ceiling chain-link fence. The robbers clipped...
...disparate elements that the film makers are trying to stick together for 48 Hrs. are a tough white cop with the soul of a beer barrel (Nick Nolte) and a jivey black con with the spirit of a peacock (Eddie Murphy of Saturday Night Live.) The former springs the latter from prison believing he can help trace a psychopathic former associate who has become a cop killer. There ensues a long, often well-staged but improbable chase through San Francisco. The sequence is enlivened by some reasonably well-written dialogue, as if Director Hill had revived The Odd Couple...
...packed in a dread silence." Pisar writes, "the faces around me flushed with the rage of helplessness, or some crazed hope of last-minute deliverance, or the hallucinatory peace of the imminence of death. At the back of the room, in a space clear of prisoners. I see a barrel of water, and alongside it a pail, brush...
...short, the KGB was pointing to a danger that Amin-if he could ride the tiger of Muslim insurgency and come out on top as the leader of an Islamic Afghanistan-not only would turn to the West but would also expel the Soviet Union-lock, stock and barrel-from Afghanistan. On political grounds, the KGB argued, it would be better, even at this late hour, to put Karmal in as President...