Word: rips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most accomplished gunslinger in the party, a man who makes his points not with obloquy or the cement fist or leaden tongue of a Spiro Agnew, but with an acerbic wit that often leaves everyone but the victim laughing. Dole has characterized Senator Edmund Muskie as "a political Rip Van Winkle who awoke and started to attack Nixon," and he once dismissed former Attorney General Ramsey Clark as a "left-leaning marshmallow...
...more and more citizens, long schooled in aggressive defense against external enemies, are turning pent-up energies against their fellows. Since 1971 crime in the small country (pop. 4.5 million) has gone up 21.7%. Robbery is up 50%, juvenile delinquency 12%. When Israeli cops are not rounding up petty rip-off artists, drug pushers and hookers, they work on their country's trickiest police problem: beating terrorists to the explosion...
...medieval record-keeping system bulging with 5? million case files. Concedes Robert Farmer, the bureau's claims director: "We're the biggest casualty insurance company in the world, but you can almost write your name backward and get a claim. It's ripe for rip...
...bitterly denounced by Admiral Hyman Rickover, the father of the nuclear Navy. His nuclear propulsion division happens to be responsible for many of the costly design changes at the Newport yard, where 16 nuclear-powered vessels are under construction. Rickover describes the claims as potentially "one of the biggest rip-offs in the history of the U.S." He charges that the builders are owned by industrial conglomerates that "don't care whether they are making ships or horse turds...
Barry Haight, attorney for Louis R. Mathis, one of the robbery suspects, named Raymond "Rip" Palmer as the other assailant in an affidavit filed with the clerk of the Middlesex Superior Court...