Word: rippingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reasons never fully explained we are asked to believe that the U.S. Government is storing deadly bacteria, useful in germ warfare, at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva. For reasons never fully explained, a team of agents?their allegiance never identified?breaks in to rip the stuff off. Two are stopped, but one gets away and, infected with the plague, boards an international express train bound for Sweden. For reasons n.f.e., Burt Lancaster, the American intelligence agent in charge of arresting both crook and disease, orders the cars sealed (to prevent an epidemic), then diverts the express to Poland...
...Today there are in the whole world only some 3,000 rich and fashionable women who wear clothes hand-made by the 23 haute couture houses of Paris. To evoke their celebrated sighs, provoke the fashion press and attract the foreign manufacturers and department-store buyers in search of rip-off grail, a legion of designers, buyers, cutters, seamstresses, midinettes, mannequins and pressers labor mightily to produce the two big shows, for summer and winter...
...Francisco as he waits to wreck the vessel. But Hayden is a rueful realist, and the book's conclusion allows no romantic vengeance. The great, evil ship still floats, Harwar is stony drunk, and he and his dreams of social justice drift off on the tidal rip. John Skow
...mostly in the 70s. If Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had had her way, however, it would have been a lot hotter in the pressroom of the Indian Express (circ. 400,000), the flagship of India's largest newspaper chain. Reason: government officials tried a few weeks ago to rip out the paper's air-conditioning system and auction it off to satisfy a disputed tax bill. Only a last-minute court injunction saved Express workers from a daily steam bath...
This "shortfall" surprises many winners and outrages some lottery critics. Walter Fackler, a business professor at the University of Chicago, calls his state's lottery "the Illinois rip-off." Says he: "The advertising is downright misleading. If private enterprise used such tactics, the Federal Trade Commission would be on its heels in a minute...