Word: boomeranged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goes hunting for Marcello Mastroianni, 40, in a homicidal fantasy called The Tenth Victim, now being filmed in Rome. Studio technicians ad mit they're still trying to figure out how she's supposed to fire a double-barreled bra. Other ordnance for the film: a boomerang Beretta, a "poodle pistol," and possibly a "tummy...
...shadow cabinet," all of them well known to each other, to their colleagues and the country, the statement was uncomfortably close to a specific accusation. Labor Chief Harold Wilson, who had ordered that the Profumo scandal not be raised by party leaders on the assumption that it might boomerang, gleefully picked up his cue and called on Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home to repudiate Hogg. Next day Hogg made a partial and grudging retraction. But he thought it was all most unfair, since "Mr. Profumo had paid a very high price indeed for a sin which is often committed...
...Boomerang. "Knocking" slogans, in adman's parlance, are apt to be risky-though pollsters find that the "carpetbagger" label has been damaging to Robert Kennedy's senatorial campaign in New York. By failing to repudiate promptly a supporter's denunciation of "rum, Romanism and rebellion" in 1884, James G. Elaine lost New York's electoral votes and the presidential election against Grover Cleveland. Barry Goldwater has probably lost votes by charging that Lyndon Johnson is "soft on Communism"-an inflammatory Republican slogan a decade ago, but now a burnt-out cliché. Another Goldwater slogan that...
Johnson's maneuver may boomerang...
Liberal-minded critics have long objected to these discriminatory laws. The boomerang-hurling aborigines, who still go naked in many areas, did not seem to mind cohabiting mostly with their own kind, but they took to drinking cleaning fluid and dissolved shoe polish. They also began demanding equal rights and equal pay - cattlemen often employed them at bargain wages...