Word: chokingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such remarks may cause Wildman's opponents almost to choke with anger. "Wildmon is like Hitler with his hit list," says Lee Rich, president of Lorimar, the company that produces such likely targets as Dallas, Flamingo Road and Knots Landing. "No one should tell the American public what to watch or what to do. Who is Wildmon to say he is the judge? When does it stop?" Joel Segal, a senior vice president of Manhattan's Ted Bates ad agency, was aroused enough to fault giant P & G for giving "credence and support to a bunch of radicals...
...demand full employment, a 35-hour work week and a guaranteed annual minimum wage of $9,434; the group would also curb "militarism" by creating soldiers' unions, free elections of officers and mandatory retirement of all generals currently in service. Notes Antimilitarist Coates: "Real Communism would make Brezhnev choke...
...Crimson, however, did not choke, worry or whine, and Den Hartog, Maureen Finn, and Wisty Oppenlander scored three unanswered goals to give Harvard a lead it would not relinquish...
...gateway between the Pacific and the Indian Ocean-and the choke point through which passes virtually all of the Middle Eastern oil on which Japan's economy depends-is the Strait of Malacca, a channel 30 miles wide at its narrowest point, between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Here too Soviet naval activity has been on the rise, in both obvious and not-so-obvious ways. Soviet destroyers, cruisers and diesel-powered, torpedo-firing Foxtrot submarines have been passing through the strait at the rate of about six a month, while nuclear-powered Echo-class...
After making an impressive performance in the round-robin preliminaries, the spikers came out charging against the Chiefs, led by the strong serving of Brad Martin and Rich Rohan. The Crimson seemed headed for certain victory when, according to Martin, "the greatest choke in Harvard volleyball history" occurred...