Word: boomeranger
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...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...
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...
...Negro ghetto in Boston--the "black boomerang" in Roxbury--continues to grow, and today a significantly larger part of the Comfonwealth's Negro citizens live in this area than did a dozen years ago. These people must spend more money for poorer housing than other citizens and their children attend inferior schools because the Boston School Committee refuses to acknowledge the existence of de facto segregation...
...segregated Negro ghetto, a small, curved area in and around Roxbury sometimes called the "black boomerang," contains over half of the Negroes in Massachusetts. Most of these families pay much more for inadequate housing than do whites in better homes...