Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good weekend") were left hopeless. Connoisseurs of outrageous grammar once relished close encounters of the Susskind. In 1977 Howard Cosell became the new favorite. "Our surmisal is correct" was one of many errors produced by the World Series; so was an "instrumentality of destruction" (a smoke bomb). Cosell's colleagues relayed his throes: "The Chiefs went into the game overwhelming underdogs"; "The player is loaded with inexperience...
...Goldsboro, N.C.: "If the OSHA inspector and I could work together to make my place safe, it would be O.K. But if he comes in to get me and fine me, I'm going to hide everything I can from him. You don't try to use an atomic bomb when a flyswatter will...
Sourest Big Apple (and Biggest Bomb): Martin Scorsese's New York, New York...
...neglected, problems postponed. Such urgent tasks as creating an energy policy, stopping the drain of Social Security funds and reforming the tax and welfare systems had been ignored or put off, largely because nobody had solutions that seemed workable or politically feasible. Like a quarterback who prefers the long bomb to the drudgery of three yards and a cloud of dust, the President threw a lot of comprehensive programs at Congress. Often his timing was poor, his leadership inadequate, his grasp of the politics shaky. But unquestionably Carter has made gains along with his celebrated setbacks...
...help reveal "whether the applicant may be hiding some health problem" and ensure that "the applicant does not want the job for some subversive reason such as sabotaging our operation." There is some basis for the company's concern: last August a tipster directed police to a pipe bomb at a Coors recycling plant in a Denver suburb...