Word: rams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, the main reason for the death of the insult is the death of confrontation in general. Time was when enemies would wholeheartedly enjoy squaring off, ram to ram. Not today, not in the world of cold war conversation, where it is judged safer and saner to say nothing and assume the worst than to say the worst and get on with it. Now the insult retreats behind a tinny smile and emerges lame from the mouths of wimps at cocktail parties, grasping soda water in both hands and leveling a whine: "I really don't think much...
Fight they did. First they waged a battle to reverse the order of business. Party Boss Stanislaw Kania had hoped to ram through his re-election on the first day of the congress, and thus gain effective control over all subsequent proceedings. The delegates would have none of it. Instead, they decided to elect a new 200-member Central Committee first and then choose a leader by secret ballot from among its ranks. Never before in the Soviet bloc had such a tactic been used. Said one congress official: "They tried to push the delegates too far too fast...
...managed to discourage Giscard from pursuing some of his legislative projects. Since only 119 members of his 274-seat ruling parliamentary coalition are formal Giscard supporters, he has on occasion tactically withdrawn from a potential fray. Giscard's Premier, Raymond Barre, however has used special constitutional powers to ram through government budgets over the grumbling of Gaullist allies. Says Giscard: "I have exercised my powers as they are conferred by the constitution. These critics are trying to weaken power. I say it bluntly: those who want weak power in France should not vote...
...because Curtin (now 1-1) threw well. Mixing a wind-aided fast-ball with an impressive new change-up ("coach Nahigian is trying to get us all to use it"--Curtin) he breezed through the spotty Ram lincup, finding trouble only when his control faltered in the third...
...motorcade was Presidential Press Secretary Jim Brady. Half an hour earlier, his deputy, Larry Speakes, had asked, "You going with the President to the hotel?" Brady's casual reply: "Yeah, I think I will." With other agents following in the "battlewagon" protective car, the caravan moved swiftly through the ram-slick streets to the hotel. Everything was going smoothly; the trip seemed quite routine...