Word: bullhorns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...firing finally stopped. The cockpit radio had been smashed so Melling grabbed a bullhorn and climbed down to the tarmac. "What is going on?" he demanded. "Who is in control? Identify yourself...
Meanwhile, back East in Wall Street, a bullhorn blared: "Come meet Jack Carter, son of Jimmy Carter, the next President of the United States." Walking with a small entourage, Jack, 29, got friendly if hurried responses from passers-by in the financial district, not the most popular area to discuss his father's tax views...
...late. I can't give you the stuff," said the voice, clicking off. The caller made a quick gesture to a building across the street. Out stepped Patrick Vecchio, assistant director of the special investigations bureau of the New York State tax department, carrying a bullhorn. "We are state investigators," announced Vecchio over the amplifier. "Open the door...
...fight between Moynihan and Abzug was an ungentlemanly and unladylike brawl-even for New York's Democrats. Bullhorn-voiced and madly hatted, Congresswoman Abzug, serving her third liberal term in the House, scorned her opponent as being little more than a Republican masquerading as a Democrat, and made much of the fact that he had served Richard Nixon as puckish gadfly, adviser and, ultimately, Ambassador to India. In turn, Moynihan made Abzug sound like the wicked witch of the West Side, implying she was guilty of "demagoguery and hypocrisy" for proclaiming her support of Israel while not voting...
...equality and justice. These may be naive dreams, but many people are quietly shaping their lives around them, disdaining standard goals to concentrate on changing their own values and those of individuals around them. But Moynihan can see only the scion of an upper-class family screaming through a bullhorn at a University Hall administrator, labeling that official a "running dog of imperialism...