Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sign on its side arrives at the target's address. A maroon-shirted driver comes to his door and asks him to step outside to sign a receipt for the package. The moment the fugitive signs, confirming his identity, two teams of officers spring out of cars and collar their quarry. The scheme so surprised many of the arrestees that they could not immediately put two and two together. "Hey, that guy had a package for me!" screamed one of them as officers affixed the handcuffs while the truck sped off. Declared another: "You didn't have...
This age group is relatively fortunate, however; it escapes blame--by a margin of several babysitters--for the Nehru collar, Bell Bottoms, paper dresses, peace symbol neckties, and chalk-white lipstick...
...district includes three distinct sections: the traditionally Democratic blue-collar New Bedford area, which still depends on commercial fishing for much of its livelihood; the more conservative and more elderly constituency on Cape Cod; and the affluent liberal suburbs to the southeast of Boston...
...Bounty to clean up this mess." Missionary Position's Sun Myung Moon-esque paradise turns out to be McDonald's, with the preacher at his pulpit dispensing McNuggets of wisdom. Moon and McDonald's are, in fact, recurring themes throughout. And if we're talking themes, Ring Around the Collar, South Pacific, the Pi Eta Speaker's Club, breakfast cereals, old-boy networks, the Harvard Krokodiloes, and alligator/crocodile phenomena in general also undergo rigorous analysis...
...Beautiful! A hell of a job!" bubbled Michael Ward of New York City's Jesup & Lament Securities. The excitement was not over just the amount of profits but also how they were achieved: more efficient production with more automation, higher prices, lower costs, sharply reduced blue-and white-collar work forces. GM's earnings last year, for example, were about the same as in 1978, but with 1.7 million fewer vehicle sales...