Word: branded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Twice before, the Soviets have made major efforts to win back Yugoslavia, but each time those overtures collapsed because of troubles within the East bloc. This time the Soviets seem more determined than ever, at least in part because Yugoslavia's independent brand of Marxism exerts an unsettling influence upon the rest of Eastern Europe...
...hope that I will never need to make use of this operation, but no contraceptive yet devised is foolproof, and I shudder to think how I would be victimized by those who would callously impose upon me their brand of morality if I became pregnant despite all precautions...
...liquor directly into a mixed drink without using a 1¼-oz. shot glass. Thus the bartender must be able to show in his receipts the equivalent of the price of 20.5 drinks for each fifth bottle of liquor sold. Most distillers offer cut-rate prices to get their brands into hotels and motels, but Holiday Inns goes one better: it buys bourbon and Scotch in bulk from Schenley at substantial savings and sells it under the Holiday Inns brand. Last year the company saved another bundle with volume buying by issuing a single order for 40,000 Motorola television...
Sergeant Bill Tillman fired a brand-new wire-guided missile which corrected its direction in mid-air and blew the turret off an oncoming tank. As the sun rose, 22 North Vietnamese tanks were left burning on the plain. Although the marines had some bad moments and had to give a little ground, they did so in good order and finally held firm; the North Vietnamese tanks had not proved to be all that formidable...
...working-class South Boston community of Dorchester, where Troy sat, there was a growing feeling that the judge was becoming a local tyrant who dispensed a highly personal brand of justice. "Troy's heavy hand touches everyone in the community," said Donna Finn, a young mother and one of Troy's strongest critics. "If they haven't been in his court themselves, they have relatives or neighbors who have." But what could they...