Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until the three major networks cease their chorus-line kick approach to the news, a rich vein of public skepticism will be available for Agnew to exploit...
There are particular people who should be very much on our minds and consciences. We owe special honor and comfort to the families of the Americans who gave their lives in Viet Nam, and we owe a special scorn to any politicians who might seek to exploit their sorrow. We owe far better medical care to the Viet Nam wounded than they are getting in many of our hospitals. We must, of course, bring home our prisoners from North Viet Nam, though it may not help to treat this as a condition for, instead of a consequence of, peace...
...cubs, with 25 more cubs en route. Laments La Panouse: "I have given away a lot of my surplus lions to European zoos. But now these zoos are breeding their own lions. Of course I could sell lion cubs for $500 or $600 apiece to itinerant photographers who exploit and mistreat them, or to publicity seekers as pets, but I'm dead set against that sort of thing." Instead La Panouse started a send-them-back-alive project, concentrating on West Africa, which just happens to be short of lions. One cub went to Dakar and two to Mauretania...
...Latin America of the frigate Lydia (36 guns), which forced Hornblower to confront the 50-gun Natividad not once but twice. The second time, with much of his crew killed or wounded and Lady Barbara inadvertently cowering in the orlop, Hornblower actually sank the larger vessel, an unheard of exploit that has since become the most famous single ship-to-ship action in British history...
Northeast also has a buried treasure of other routes that it never had the money to exploit fully. They stretch from Montreal, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington to Miami. The most important prize that the merger will bring, according to Delta Chairman Charles H. Dolson, is Northeast's right to fly the heavily traveled New York-Miami route. "Now," he says, "we can compete with Eastern...