Word: popgunned
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...When the rest of the orchestra said "Bleep," the violins joined in. When they were required to do fey finger snaps over their heads, they complied. When asked to belch, literally, they drew the line and said "Blurp." When Percussionist William Kraft, dutifully following the score, fired a popgun, they played on unblinking. Meanwhile, platformed six feet above the orchestra, the Mothers were lullabying away at some of their "greatest hits," like Lumpy Gravy, Duke of Prunes and Who Needs the Peace Corps. Then, everyone in the orchestra suddenly screamed, one final frightening chord was heard, and with a giant...
...fuddle factory" and turn them back to departments already equipped to run them. A companion bill offers industry a 7% tax credit for initiating job-creating training programs. These measures, claim its cosponsors, Representatives Charles Goodell of New York and Minnesota's Quie, would "completely restructure the popgun war on poverty" and replace "the mangled mishmash of overlapping, conflicting and wasteful programs" with more effective ones-all at a saving of $200 million...
...night, the first thing he did was snap back the cover boards on Kohler's The Mentality of Apes as far as they would go. What the hell-that was the way he felt. All churned up in his guts, but kinda fuzzy and helpless, too. Like a popgun without a cork. As a freshman, he had been an eager overachiever. Now he was cutting his favorite class because it was just too far to walk. The only thing he really hungered for was a sense of cool. Like his buddy, Chum Breed, a shadowy man who wore elbow...
...greater speed of the modern jet, there remains a large gap. So abundant are planes for tactical use in the South, on the other hand, that military men in Saigon maintain: "In the South we have a baseball bat to kill a flea, in the North a popgun to bring down an elephant...
Armed with Popguns. Authors Maurice G. Baxter, Robert H. Ferrell and John E. Wiltz argue that the mess in Indiana can be matched in most areas of the U.S. Along with James Conant and others, they pin most of the blame on teacher preparation, which consists mainly of a few undergraduate survey courses in history. About one-third of Indiana's history teachers have not taken a single graduate course in the subject. "A teacher who invades the classroom with such a background," the authors warn, "is akin to a soldier entering battle with a popgun...