Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goals in hockey games. As a player for the Montreal Canadiens, Blake led the National Hockey League in points (goals plus assists) in 1939. In 13 seasons as the Canadiens coach, he won eight Stanley Cup titles and shepherded the careers of Maurice ("Rocket") Richard, Jean Beliveau and Bernie ("Boom-Boom") Geoffrion. From behind the bench, Blake schemed to stop such high-scoring opponents as Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, Phil Esposito and Stan Mikita. So when it comes to evaluating hockey's newest natural wonder, the New York Islanders' Right Wing Mike Bossy, Blake is succinct...
once took for granted has become a dim memory. Instead, the nation seems to have become stuck on a kind of jet-propelled merry-go-round that spins through faster and faster cycles of boom and bust, rising and falling interest rates and accelerating inflation...
Fearful of losing federal dollars for their hard-pressed communities, Northern mayors charged that the report was yet another example of federal bias against their region. It is their citizens' taxes, they argued, that helped build the military installations and technological institutions that have contributed to the boom in the Sunbelt. Complained McCabe: "It's as if we should be Arabs and fold up our tents to move South." Protested Cleveland Mayor George Voinovich: "We're dealing with human beings, not checkers...
Japanese radio manufacturers, who dominate the market, say that the shortwave boom started about five years ago in their country, and just a year ago in the U.S. and Europe. One reason: the introduction of small receivers, no larger than paperback books, and sets that cost as little as $60. "It's astonishing how many people have picked up the short-wave habit," says George Berzins, a spokesman for the Voice of America. "We've noticed a big increase in audience, and so have most other broadcasters." (This audience does not include ham operators, who broadcast as well...
...whole, however, people will fight through a for bidding given name, especially when they want to make some one more vivid hi their minds. Where would baseball be without Goose, hockey without Boom Boom, football without Mean Joe? Common criminals would sound like common criminals were there no Machine Gun, Killer or Mad Dog among them. Not that all gangster names are so picturesque. Nathan Kaplan's monicker was "Kid Dropper" for reasons too awful to contemplate. And Al Capone was known as the Millionaire Gorilla, though it is hard to picture some floozie chucking him under the chin...