Word: boomeranging
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After his tactics boomerang, Carter promises to stop blitzing Reagan...
...nuclear war set in without countering it." Some aides argued that he should respond to the President's tactics with strong language of his own. Others urged Reagan to play it cool, claiming that the candidate's mild, aw-shucks style would make Carter's attacks boomerang...
...were distressed at the haste with which U.S. banks have declared Iranian loans in default and have seized Tehran's overseas assets. Complained an angry Luxembourg banker: "Third parties are being unnecessarily drawn into the conflict. The Americans are displaying Wild West manners and throwing clubs that will boomerang." Countercharged a U.S. banker in London: "The Europeans have no guts. The dollar is one of the few weapons we have and, believe me, we intend...
...Uranus, more than 1.6 billion miles from earth. It will reach Uranus 4½ years later, in January 1986. Leaving Jupiter, Voyager took an edge-on look at the planet's ring, which emerged on J.P.L. TV screens as a glow-'ng white neon-like boomerang...
...doing a wedding skit, she managed to maneuver him in front of a fully loaded preacher (he escaped the pit of matrimony by the desperate stratagem of summoning Lew Zealand, who had been hanging around backstage waiting for his lucky break, to bring on those tacky and awful boomerang fish). Miss Piggy has a wandering eye, however, and if the week's guest star happens to be a good-looking man, she latches onto him. After dancing the stirring pas de deux from Swine Lake with Rudolph Nureyev, she stalked the poor fellow into a steam bath and drove...