Word: rammed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shoved like a battering ram into the St. Francis Hotel by officers, a bleeding, handcuffed and barefoot Moore was thrown into a mezzanine reception room. She had lost her cowboy boots when overpowered, and her tan slacks had been split open. She was helped into a chair, and her handcuffs were removed. After she was assured that her son would be picked up at school, she waived her right to an immediate lawyer. Displaying remarkable casualness about her assassin's role, she declared that if Ford had not left the hotel when he did, she would have abandoned her shooting...
...grows the more it can escape from the workings of the market to become a law unto itself, thus paralyzing Adam Smith's "invisible hand." According to Galbraith, large companies can set prices more or less independently of demand, produce what they rather than consumers want, and in effect ram the products down consumers' throats by the power of advertising. If corporations cannot defy the market, they can sometimes resist it for a long time when it refuses to conform to their plans. A classic example is Detroit's stubborn insistence on building big, costly, gas-thirsty cars long after...
...vengeance, and had put her personal prestige on the line. At that point, she reportedly wanted to hand over power to Defense Minister Swaran Singh until the Supreme Court could hear her appeal of the Allahabad ruling. But a majority of Congress leaders insisted on Agriculture Minister Jagjivan Ram as Interim Prime Minister. Rather than risk a party quarrel, Mrs. Gandhi decided to stay on. Last week she was again rebuffed when a Supreme Court vacation judge issued a conditional rather than an unconditional stay pending her appeal. The ruling stipulated that Mrs. Gandhi could perform her duties as Prime...
...troops in the '69 four-day "Soccer War" with neighboring El Salvador, a bloody fracas that claimed more than 2,000 lives and devastated the nation's economy. He returned to power in 1972 by ousting the elderly, constitutionally elected President Ramón Ernesto Cruz...
...career, he could afford to train full time. He spent eight weeks near the Catskill Mountains under the watchful eyes of his amiably foul-mouthed manager, Al Braverman, and his trainer, Bill Prezant. During the long workouts, Wepner constantly dreamed of dropping Ali to the mat with a battering-ram right to the champ's unblemished chin; Braverman had visions of a Wepner TV commercial endorsing a shaving cream that gave even the world champion Bayonne Bleeder a smooth, nick-free shave. Prophesied Trainer Prezant: "This will be the biggest surprise in boxing." And Wepner's second wife...