Word: scram
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While small towns generally welcome the bases as a boost to their economies, urban dwellers view the ABM more as a magnet to enemy missiles than as a defense against them. On Bainbridge Island, near Seattle, protests are financed by the sale of buttons reading "SCRAM!" -an acronym for Sentinel Cities Reject Anti-Missiles...
...Britain when the word first came. Much of the country was sprawled in stuffed chairs watching an old Doris Day movie (Midnight Lace) on the BBC. First there was a fragmentary bulletin that broke into the movie, then a delay in the scheduled 10:25 news while scriptwriters scram bled to get together details. In millions of living rooms up and down the length of Britain, people watched transfixed while a gay Latin American dance rhythm blared from the box, which went blank except for a slide advising...
...captain came here himself, and ordered me to put it up. Well, it does no harm, we all know how we feel. But then he asked me to take down the pictures of the politicians. Look here, I said, I did you a favor, putting up that poster, now scram. These pictures are not coming down, as long as I am alive. He left--up here they respect up old fighters. Elsewhere I would have been arrested, I guess...
Quarterback Tom Thornton is a scram- bler. He has thrown 12 times a game and hit on half of those, for a total of 302 yards and three touchdowns. He is small at 170 pounds, but he is good. His favorite target is speedy split end Reggie Rucker, who has caught two of those TD heaves...
Under the circumstances, the most promising tactic for Schramme and his men would be to scram. The big question is how to arrange their escape. At week's end the U.S. and other embassies were putting pressure on the Congo's eastern neighbor, Rwanda, to permit the meres to cross the border and be evacuated by plane...