Word: scotching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Officials moved quickly to scotch any attempt to draw Freudian implications from the error. "It was just me making a mistake," said Ilana Rhodes, publications editor in the Office of the Registrar, which puts together the catalogue. "I was probably just looking at another piece of paper," she added...
...while the public is seeing lots of David Mahoney, it may soon see much less of his company. Mahoney last week proposed to make Norton Simon (Hunt's ketchup, Max Factor cosmetics, Johnnie Walker Scotch) a private corporation. He and a group of Norton Simon executives and other investors offered to buy all the firm's outstanding stock for about $725 million. If company shareholders and directors accept the plan, Norton Simon will apparently be the largest company ever to have moved from the New York Stock Exchange into private hands...
Padilla, 59, was born poor, but now earns enough from his security firm to afford the good life: two Cadillacs, $300,000 house, swimming pool, outdoor barbecue, Scotch and sizzling T-bones on the patio. He is a Republican: he shows a photograph of his wife with Wayne Newton at President Reagan's Inauguration...
...college students, for many of whom a care package is the vital link with home, can imagine a more fitting punishment for their crime: the ignominious court-postal. The U.S. Postal Service patches are ripped off the shoulders of the sweaters of the disgraced pair. Their scales and scotch-tape dispensers are smashed, and they are demoted to forever sorting mail without zip codes in the Dead Letter Office. The wretches fall to their knees and beg for lenience, but their judges are firm, and a squad of uniformed mail-carriers come to haul the miscreants away. Cruel, perhaps...
...office, the neatly tailored and coolly authoritative Andropov has worked hard to shake the worldwide stereotype of the KGB heavy in the ill-fitting suit. In a rumor campaign that began before Brezhnev's death, Andropov was portrayed in the West as a sensitive liberal with a fondness for Scotch whisky and the Glenn Miller sound. Now, after most of the disinformation and half-truths have been sifted out, Andropov remains an unknown quantity. What is clear is that his rise to power has coincided with the gradual evolution of the Soviet Union as a modern police state in which...