Word: circusing
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Died. Hugo Zacchini, 77, a circus performer who, while musing about the trajectory of the grenades he had to duck as an Italian artilleryman during World War I, conceived his famous human cannonball act; of a stroke; in San Bernardino, Calif. Using a compressed-air cannon, Zacchini made his maiden flight (some 130 ft.) in Cairo in 1922. In 1929, John Ringling lured him to the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, where he performed for another 32 years...
This has been an increasingly difficult circus act to perform. Revolts against the "moderate" Labour M.P.'s have weighted the balance of power within the National Executive heavily in favor of the radicals. The moderates, by deserting Wilson over the Common Market issue (they voted, with the Tories, to keep Britain in the EEc) lost key positions of strength. After Edward Heath's brinksmanship on the edge of class war failed to rally the nation during the Coal Strike of 1974, Wilson took office on the principle that only a Labour government could come to a rational deal with...
...mouthing the council these days is becoming almost as fashionable as criticizing Harvard. John J. Courtney, another unaligned non-incumbent, said that the mayor, who presides over council meetings, would be replaced by a "ringmaster with a whip," since the "city council is nothing but a circus...
...Circus, Maclean...