Word: hijacking
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...missionary calls "occupied territory"; the guerrillas are there, the government knows it, but the army cannot do much about it. The guerrillas attack anything connected with government, however beneficial to the populace or nonpolitical the target might be. As elsewhere in Rhodesia, the guerrillas land-mine roads, rob stores, hijack buses and stage occasional ambushes. Their aim is to push the nationalist cause and to make the country ungovernable, and they seem to be succeeding...
...Americans' answer-and equally clearly unsurprised by it-President Amin then took us off in his British-made Range Rover for a personally conducted tour of the still bullet-and bazooka-shattered section of Entebbe airport, where Israeli troops last July staged their stunningly successful raid to rescue hijack hostages from pro-Palestinian kidnapers...
...paper. More than once he has offered a resolution to rename Plympton St. "Lampoon Avenue" in honor of the "really important" publication that abuts that road. And when Al took out a political ad in last year's election supplement, by chance he discovered a "plot" to hijack all of that morning's Crimsons. After alerting the business staff of the nefarious scheme, Al introduced to the council and saw to passage an order that Cambridge police keep a "keen and constant watch" on the Out of Town newsstands. Thanks to his vigilance, no Crimsons were stolen that election...
...French thus are supposed to devise substitutes for the ubiquitous anglicisms that comprise a good part of their everyday vocabulary: such non-bons mots as bestseller, sexy, blue jeans, bowling, gadget, checkup, checkout, jumbo jet, baby sitter, nonstop, dead heat (pronounced did it), hot dog, hijack, racket, zoom, jukebox, call girl, marketing, merchandising and leasing. Evidemment, the government will need un computer -preferred usage: ordinateur-to track down the offending business man, a designation that is not precisely conveyed by its closest French equivalent, l'homme d'affaires, and even less by la femme d'affaires...
...Hustle, which has made the national charts for an extraordinary 18 weeks. Other popular Hustle records include Loggins & Messina's Pathway to Glory, Consumer Rapport's Ease On Down the Road (from the Broadway musical The Wiz), Herbie Mann's Hijack and Ester Phillips' What a Difference a Day Makes. None, however, quite matches Me Coy's hit. "Do it," exhorts the record. "Do the Hustle." And they do, they...