Word: rubberizing
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...federal examiner in 1971 and Comptroller Heimann this year both reported that Lance had been technically in violation of this civil statute, since an overdraft is, in effect, a loan. Maryland Republican Charles Mathias Jr., mixing metaphors, termed the practice of letting Lance's campaign committee "write rubber checks that wouldn't bounce, like the goose that lays the golden...
Electricity was cut off for 25,000 utility customers, and 16,000 phones were knocked out. Those services resumed within 48 hours, but the cleanup would take longer. Miller Nichols, whose father developed Country Club Plaza, slogged through the area in high rubber boots and pledged, "We're gonna bounce back. By Thanksgiving you'll hardly know that anything happened...
Nonetheless, Mayor Hofheinz strenuously opposes forming a civilian board to review complaints. Local attitudes he believes, are such that the board would be little more than "a rubber stamp for the department." Says he: "I know how this city works...
Those flaws have been fatally enlarged by recent history. The book's nameless narrator has been sent to the Malay village of Ayer Hitam to close down a U.S. consulate that has outlived the prosperity of the American-owned rubber plantations that once flourished there. The Viet Nam War is over. In literary time, it is post-Heart of Darkness and The Ugly American. The real action now takes place in far-flung Hiltons, where multinational businessmen confer in the Esperanto of global trade...
...Rubber Whale. Charlotte Rampling is on hand as one of those movie scientists whose precise discipline is unexplained but whose function is to ex plain - and explain - to the less enlightened that they must not underestimate the wit and sensitivity of the animal kingdom. This is a big mistake. Melville - even Peter Benchley - understood that it is best not to humanize the creatures of the deep too much. They are more frightening if perceived as imponderable forces...