Word: reared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...April 17), began staking out the restaurant in hope of catching the Colombos off guard. One night recently, a Gallo spy spotted four Colombo men gathered at the bar and quickly left to flash word to the Gallo camp in Brooklyn. In the interim the Colombos moved to a rear table and were replaced at the bar by four wholesale kosher-meat dealers out for a night on the town. A half-hour later, a Gallo trigger man known as "The Syrian" donned a shoulderlength black wig, entered the restaurant, ordered a Scotch and water, and began sizing up what...
...successful how, as I passed through the backstage area with a case of the dry heaves from the heat in front of the stage; the Jagger-Richard duets; quick glances around the Garden, with the balcony looking like another, calmer, world removed from the chaos downstairs; a rear stage view, with Chip Monck's arm slashes cueing the crew in the split second of a chord change...
...cases the rear axles and wheels had slipped out from their normal positions, causing minor accidents, and so far Chevy has found defective axles in another 44 cars. It is possible, G.M. dealers believe, that about another 140 Vegas still have defective rear axles. Because they are a fraction of an inch too short, wheels and axles can come loose from the cars. Says James McLernon, Chevy's manufacturing manager: "We made a terrible mistake, and the worst part of it is we just don't know how it could have happened...
...made the extravagant charge that General Motors designers made cars hard to repair in order to drive up repair costs for the benefit of dealers and parts manufacturers. With that, G.M. sent two executives to Harrisburg to inspect Denenberg's car. (They claimed it had suffered a "rear impact" that complicated repair of the taillight.) Denenberg has called the present system for paying auto-accident claims "a legalized racket," noting that the Pennsylvania state lottery pays out to winners more of the money it collects (45? on the dollar) than auto insurers pay out on claims to accident victims...
Rumors that police had arrived filtered into the building, and the crowd fled. They left water gushing from an open pipe, and a small paper fire burned on the second floor. As the marchers filed out the rear entrance, a Harvard police car glided into the parking lot behind the building. Two policemen leaped out and chased the group across Divinity Ave., where they rejoined 1200 other marchers and onlookers who had not entered the building...