Word: holing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...managed to borrow extensively abroad. It now owes $2.9 billion, $800 million of which is due private lenders in the U.S., Europe and Japan. But instead of achieving steady growth, Zaïre became a textbook example of how a Third World nation can dig itself into an economic hole. Today the country is all but bankrupt; it has fallen badly behind in repaying its debts. Manhattan's Citibank and other creditor banks have agreed to arrange a new $250 million loan, but first they imposed tough conditions under which Mobutu will in effect be forced to control...
...best known example of the enduring greatness of golf's champions is Gene Sarazen. When he was seventy-one, he played in the 1973 British Open at Troon, fifty years after his first appearance there. The dapper, knickerbockered Sarazen aced the 126-yd. hole known as the Postage Stamp because of its small green. He finished with a 79 and shot an 81 for his second round, sinking an explosion shot for a 2 on the Postage Stamp...
Borowczyk, also the screenwriter, does not stop Ewa's fall here. Within the next 45 minutes, and to the triumphant strains of Mendelsohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor, Ewa stuffs her illegitimate child down an outhouse hole, pull a love-sick count by the nose all the way to Paris, and finally succumbs to a shifty-looking criminal who uses her charms to defraud the hapless count. "Isn't this going too far? we begin to wonder...
Calling the Pentagon a "rat-hole in Virginia," the ex-Marine added, "America needs to reject its historic role as police officer of the world, gun-runner of the world, counter-insurgency expert of the world...
...make a judgment. Perhaps this accounts for how little sympathy the press and the public gave to the nervous participants. Even the setting made the candidates look like men in the dock, or like those carnival games in which you throw baseballs at a head sticking out of a hole...