Word: goon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seized control of flight 355 by threatening that at least one of the group would detonate an explosive he had presumably carried on board under his clothes; such a bomb would not be detectable with present airport security systems. The leader was a beefy, bearded man. "He was the goon, but he was nice," recalled one passenger, James Perkins, a regional sales manager for Schenley. "He kept his hand in his pocket all the time, as if he had a gun." One of the skyjackers was a young woman who claimed she was an American and was married to another...
...world goes Red, you offer two miserable choices: either smile like a helpless goon or start World War III. There is another way: wake up, drive hard bargains, get tough in the U.N., act sensibly...
Probably far more important than anything coming out of the recall campaign will be effect the libel suit and lawless mob will have on future coverage of Philadelphia and other cities' politics. If adversary relations stay tough, will there be future demonstrations and shutdowns by politicians' goon squads? Will papers feel free to satirize public officials if Rizzo wins his $6-million suit...
...analysis, only the bare scripts ac companied by a few photos. Yet it escapes nonbook status, thanks to the peculiarly literary nature of Bob & Ray's medium. From Fred Allen's 1954 Tread mill to Oblivion to the recent multi-volume compilations of the BBC's Goon Show, reprinted radio routines have proved surprisingly readable, and for sound reason. Alone among comedy forms, they celebrate the primacy of the word...
...Goon Squads. In addition, the Teamsters in their organizing campaigns can call on muscle. Sometimes it is physical. The union has never lost the aura of violence. During the struggle between the Teamsters and Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers of America in California, Teamster goon squads wielding baseball bats and chains have waded into U.F.W.A. workers, and in 1973 a U.F.W.A. picket was killed by shots from a passing...