Word: ramming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wilson is not about to barge in and try to ram Labor's more controversial planks through Parliament. As he warned his M.P.s at a caucus last week, "There will have to be priorities." His most pressing problem will be to make arrangements for billions of dollars worth of foreign credit to keep Britain solvent over the next few years. Fulfilling his promise "to get the country back to work" -and seeking to restore business confidence-he ordered an end to the three-day week, which had cost Britain $4.6 billion in lost production and unemployment payments. He also...
When hockey and football can't seem to crack the old Eli bastion in New Haven, leave the cracking to us, Tom Sanders might tell you. His Crimson cagers did everything but maul the walls of Gothic Payne Whitney Gymnasium with a battering ram last night, strewing the hardwood with shattered Yale strategies and sweeping to an easy 87-65 victory...
Tony Jenkins, Lou Silver, Bill Carey and Len Adams will have their hands full. Daly likes to use Haigler; John Engles, a 6-ft. 8-in. sophomore battering ram who drops in 11.8 points a game, Bob Bigelow, a 6-ft. 7-in. guard-forward; and Henry Johnson, a 6-ft. 11-in. resident of Tulsa, Okla., in various combinations...
...would appeal to them to assist the miners." Heath seized on the statement as evidence that McGahey was trying to bring down his government. The Labor Party leaped into the fray with a statement repudiating "any attempt by Communists or others to use the miners as a political battering ram." Then, to a burst of cheers from Labor benches in Parliament, Opposition Leader Harold Wilson declared that "the extremists in the situation are the vice president of the N.U.M. [McGahey] and Mr. Heath." The heated exchange caused a flurry of partisan name calling but hardly helped solve the miners...
...Neill used the full power of his office between 1949 and 1952 to ram through the state's "Little New Deal" of social legislation. During key votes, he was known to lock the doors, as he puts it, "to keep a fella from taking a walk...