Word: railroading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lincoln was a prominent railroad lawyer in 1860, but he campaigned for the White House as the simple Midwestern rail-splitter. And his last moments were spent watching a play, Our American Cousin, in which an unsophisticated rustic journeys to Britain, where he gets the better of his highfalutin relatives...
Many of the soldiers had yet to return, a railroad workers' strike paralyzed the country's transportation system and prisoners took over Alcatraz...
...About Yeltsin," says an elderly man. "He promised to lie down on the railroad tracks if prices went...
...only sent his CFV to existing groups that were political, rather than musical, in nature, and he also failed to provide any evidence that there was enough interest in whitepower music to justify the creation of the group. Thus, the CFV became seen as a political attempt to railroad whitepower sentiment into the mainstream and was rightfully dismissed by many in the Usenet community as lacking the relevance which is necessary to garner a "yes" vote...
IOWAN BOB SHARP, A CAUCUS PRECINCT leader, worked 16 hours one day last week at the Union Pacific railroad so he could take a day off to go hear Forbes speak. "I've seen him on TV; now I wanted to meet him in person," says Sharp. "He's got some interesting ideas. I don't know whether he can transform them into action. People are taking a hard look at him now. Someone in my precinct said he's the Ross Perot within the Republican Party...