Word: choking
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...Johnson also had an admonition to labor. Said he: "We must not choke off our needed and our speedy economic expansion by a revival of the price-wage spiral." Then he turned upon labor the very same words that President Kennedy had used against industry after the dramatic 1962 steel crisis: "We can and must, under the responsibility given to us by the Constitution, and by statute and by necessity, point out the national interest. And, where applica ble, we can and must and will enforce the law on restraints of trade and national emergencies " When he finished, he stood...
...unemployment, crushing debts, too many children and too little food are facts of life in the city just as much as they are in the boondocks. Unskilled and unschooled, the migrants simply disappear into Rio's hillside favelas, Caracas' ranchos, Santiago's callampas, the slums that choke every large Latin American city. In a year's time, squatters at the edge of Colombia's port city of Barranquilla turned a bean field into a shantytown of crude huts housing 2,500 people. Lima's slums are growing ten times faster than the city itself...
Bewildered by a foot clutch, a manual stick shift and a tricky choke, the robber flooded the engine. The car lurched and died. He started it again, and again the Ford coughed and pooped out. The driver, desperate, looked across the street. There stood a group of demolition workers who had been tearing down an old slaughterhouse. They now became the central figures in a modern morality play...
Waving Feathers. Yes, Don Drysdale, the towering (6 ft. 6 in.) part-time TV actor who lost almost as many games as he won during the long summer (record: 19-17). But by now the mighty Yankees, the never-choke champions, the team that does not accept defeat, could only imagine what horrors were in store for them. Right at the start of the third game, the Dodgers scraped up a run. And once again, the Yankee sluggers might have been waving feathers for all the wood they got on the ball. Mickey Mantle got his first...
...perhaps this approach--why did the Yankees lose?--is wrong. More to the point is why did the Dodgers win. Why did a team that in the past has been well trained in the key fielding error, the choke, the "I lost the ball in the sun" routine suddenly turn respectable...