Word: boomeranger
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...Boomerang. In Woonsocket, R.I., after ordering city police to enforce a strict no-fix'' policy on motor-vehicle viola tions. Mayor Kevin Coleman learned who had received parking tickets as a result...
Socialists have occasionally warned that Churchill might try to take advantage of the patriotic euphoria of the coronation to call a "snap general election." But the P. M. himself is said to feel that such exploitation of the coronation would boomerang. Having gone through three general elections in eight years, he is convinced that "the country is sick of elections" and wants a rest from partisan strife. This is why the Churchill government has taken pains to press its denationalization and decontrol programs with calculated gentleness...
Propaganda Boomerang...
Once he started to make money on the Zoomerangs, Tigrett felt as if he had hold of a boomerang. Taxes threatened to take more than half his profits. But he soon thought up a real taxeroo. He now forms a new company to handle each new toy he brings out (e.g., rocker toys, toy typewriters, the Charles Eames TOY), thus keeps his overall gross in the lowest corporate income-tax brackets. In addition to the Chicago parent, Tigrett Enterprises, Inc., he now runs seven toy companies...
...flail of generalization on foreign policy with the powerful, if inaccurate, charges that our foreign aid has not gained any converts and that we are leaving our boys in Korea to die while the enemy goes unpunished. The wildness and lack of documentation in these accusations lends them a boomerang effect, but they certainly indicate a willingness on MacArthur's part to give political battle. And significantly, he also committed himself on the heated issues of civil rights ("purely local social problem") and tidelands oil rights (which should go to the states...