Word: hooding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...barking, a child crying upstairs, some cracks in a plaster wall he could see. Heavy chains were padlocked around his neck, and the temperature was kept frigid. At mealtime one of the gang would alert the prisoner of his approach by coughing; Empain would then have to draw a hood over his head and cough to indicate that he was wearing it. His food came from tin cans, which the kidnapers tossed into the backyard when he was finished...
...steep, fast climb. He was passed over for a role he badly wanted in The Last Detail but won a prime supporting part in Director Brian DePalma's nightmare fairy tale, Carrie. He had already broken up with Marilu, but while working on Carrie he had become the hottest hood on TV since The Fonz. Four-color posters were being printed, and record contracts were in negotiation...
...firms with more than 200 employees to give worker representatives one-third of the votes in the new "corporate assemblies" that replaced the traditional shareholders' meeting. Another idea being contemplated by the Labor Party is the "Gjest Baardsen fund," named after the legendary Norwegian version of Robin Hood. Like its name sake, the scheme would take money from successful companies and give it to unprofitable ones for salary hikes. Still other future programs would, according to Premier Nordli, continue slashing "differences in pay, wealth and other advantages...
Passage of the Robin Hood fund...
...snow to his Jeep and connects an extension cord to the plug sticking out of the grille, starting a heater which will keep the engine warm all night. Without heat, the engine freezes tight in the bitter-cold thin mountain air. Jim puts his ear to the metal hood and stays very still, listening for the sounds that will tell him the heater is working. He knows that unless he is careful, he will not ski tomorrow, and he wants to, very much...