Word: blatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, a government and party blat in Soviet Central Asia, vented its spleen on factories that produced fur hats too inferior to capture customers. One plant was fined $12,000 when it was discovered that only half its output of fur hats and other clothing had been inspected, and of that percentage fully one in five garments proved defective...
Despite a glittering new job offer-deputy manager of Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, a party blat deep in Khrushchev's virgin lands-Aleksei decided to hang around. After all, Wife Rada still had her job as an editor of a Moscow scientific journal...
...weeks out of the year, the tiny Isle of Man (221 sq. mi.) sits placidly in the Irish Sea, a quaint clinker of Celtic culture, noted mostly for its kippers and cats. But once a year the Isle is hell on wheels. Sandbags guard the sidewalks, the blat-a-tat of racing engines shatters the quiet, and gravediggers thoughtfully lay out new plots in Borough Cemetery. "Tourist Trophy Week" is at hand-and thousands of motorcycle riders arrive for a five-day carnival of racing over one of the world's most perilous courses...