Word: rippingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like the kind of women," says George Hunt in one skit, "who will just rip off all her clothing and throw herself upon you with rancid sensuality...
...around the U.S., the lament is the same: in ways both devious and sinister, and too mystifying to understand, Big Oil is somehow out to rip off the public. Says Irene McMackin, a Milwaukee public relations consultant: "I just don't feel the crisis is real. I don't trust the oil companies." Adds William Meier, an Indiana insurance agent: "My emotional
...debate over decontrol and Carter's call for a windfall profits tax intensifies, the President has been amplifying charges made more than a year ago that the industry is plotting "the biggest rip-off in history." Now, Carter is actually
...Rip van Winkle, a very short opera--Dunster Library...
...companies. Two days after his nationally televised energy message, with its harsh attack on the oil industry, the President defended his decontrol program before a Democratic fund-raising dinner by saying, "I will not allow this painful but necessary step to become an excuse for a massive rip-off of the American people by American oil companies. They are going to be all over Capitol Hill like a chicken on a June bug. They say they have more influence on Congress than the American people have. I say, let's prove them wrong." Ultimately, oilmen may find it easier...