Word: rippingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...publicity is continuing. Last week New West and New York magazines ran a seven-page expose on Begelman, charging that his recent rip-offs were not a "mental aberration," as he claimed, but fitted a long-term pattern, dating back to his days as Judy Garland's agent in the early 1960s. Drawing mainly on files and canceled checks supplied by Garland's former husband Sid Luft, the article asserted that Begelman and a partner, Freddie Fields, had fleeced the singer of large amounts. Meanwhile the Los Angeles County district attorney was investigating the latest Begelman case but was finding...
...cutting their taxes. The President, who in October scared the wits out of many executives by thundering that Big Oil wanted to "rip off' the people, sprinkled his State of the Union message and economic report with flattering references to private business as the great provider of income and jobs. Blumenthal expounds on the point: "Business investment, which has been too low, is the key not only to keeping the economy going, but also the key to fighting inflation." His reasoning: if companies do not build, expand and modernize factories, production bottlenecks and shortages will develop as the economy expands...
...particular Augean stable that 9to5 organizers have taken on, the muck lies deep. Change is slow in coming. The winner of 9to5's "Pettiest Office Procedures Contest" last fall was a man who had his secretary sew up a rip in the seat of his pants while he was in them. ("Men's egos are bigger today," he later explained to The Boston Globe. "Men want that little bit of security that a good secretary provides.") Second prize went to a store manager who asked his clerks to dress up as bumble bees to attract customers into his store...
...think there's a parallel in my career and Clint's. We both have a particular audience that is loyal to us no matter what the critics say. With Clint, they want him to rip the bad guy's face off. With me, they want me to say those Don Rickles lines to people in authority?the bank clerk who won't cash your check, the traffic cop. And it even goes further, all the way up the lines of authority-even up to the President...
...looked to be a replay of the aggressive game in Providence less than a month ago between the two clubs went completely haywire in Harvard's favor late in the second period. With 1:05 remaining in the stanza and the Crimson on top 3-2, Harvard proceeded to rip off three goals in 47 seconds...