Word: doublecross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sensing a doublecross, Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas angrily accused Bergland of being in "open conflict with what the Congress has directed him to do." Finally, in early November the Administration imposed the tariff and established the support program. For no apparent reason, however, the regulations omitted refined sugar from the tariffs and were otherwise ineffective in curtailing the import of raw sugar before the Jan. 1 deadline. While the Administration delayed closing the loopholes for ten weeks, foreign sugar flooded the U.S. In December alone, nearly 2 million tons of sugar was imported, about six times the normal...
...soldier's misadventures take place in rural Russia during the spring of 1941. Hitler is poised to doublecross his former ally Stalin and invade the Soviet motherland. Chonkin stomps about his business, fetching the firewood for the battalion kitchen. But when an antiquated military plane makes a forced landing in nearby Krasnoye, Chonkin is ordered there as a sentry. Before the first day ends, he has made himself at home in the village. He moves in with Nyura Belyashova, a postal clerk, shares her bed, cleans her house and tends her garden. He also moves the plane into...
...fight, Foreman developed a "pinched nerve" in his knee. He was rushed to the hospital amid increasing rumors that the fight would be canceled. Meanwhile, Foreman's camp was announcing that Rondeau was not the referee it wanted after all. "This is a vicious doublecross against us," Norton's manager first declared. Then he turned the tables himself and insisted that Rondeau be in the ring...
...ever, Hoffa bounced out of a red Cadillac with his wife Jo, obviously enjoying the movie-premiere spectacle of TV lights and photographers. He disclaimed any rift with his "old friend Fitz," but when asked by a news reporter if the restriction on his release amounted to a doublecross, Hoffa said, "Nobody knows what happened, but it wasn't part of the papers I signed in prison...I probably would have been out in 1974 with the extra good time." His chief ambition right now, he said, was to "be able to speak out again about the injustices...
...board with 64 pieces to a side. Now, working independently, two other buffs have devised chesslike games for three players, all competing at the same time. Both encourage the formation of alliances in which two players can gang up on the third while at the same time scheming to doublecross each other. The shifting balance of power and Byzantine movement result in a chess contest that a Kissinger or Metternich would appreciate. The new games...