Word: boomerangers
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That is not quite right. Administration leaders, among them Bobby Kennedy, realize fully that a public purge might boomerang, bringing cries of Government interference and ensuring the re-election of Congressmen opposed to the New Frontier. Says Bobby of the purge possibility: "I was not born yesterday." But what the Administration does intend to do is squeeze its Southern critics-and squeeze them hard...
...Tariff of Abominations," as its enemies called it. But excessively high tariffs tend to choke off international trade and push up domestic prices, and the Tariff of Abominations stirred up impassioned opposition. South Carolina even enacted a Nullification Ordinance that declared the 1828 tariffs void within the state. The boomerang result of the 1828 Tariff Act was a freer-trade movement that prevailed in Congress from the early 1830s until the Civil War brought on a new surge of protectionism...
...inevitable, of course, that someone would invent a boomerang shaped like a space station, which can be flown by an eight-year-old. The someone is William C. Knox Jr., and all the indications are that he is about to become rich while the rest of the world ducks...
...being banned in Boston. Since Evtushenko and the few other desk-drawer poets lucky enough to achieve publication are seldom permitted editions of more than a few thousand, their works are mostly transmitted verbally or copied from furtive, short-lived poetry magazines with names such as Cocktail and Boomerang. In Moscow and Leningrad, there are hundreds of unpublishable poets who advertise their calling by aping scruffy U.S. beatniks down to dirty dungarees, unkempt beards, and unfathomable doggerel...
...brisk breeze as Von Trips and 31 other drivers gunned their racers to the start of the 267-mile race. A crowd of nearly 50,000 packed grandstands and bleachers, and pressed against the wire fences at the edge of the 6.2-mile course that winds through a boomerang-shaped road circuit and a broad speed oval. They had come to see the five blood-red Italian Ferraris-all but one members of Enzo Ferrari's superb factory team. When the cars went off, Von Trips quickly faltered and fell behind. He had a history of first-lap trouble...