Word: shakedown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that. After he reluctantly became a Democrat for Nixon, his Government troubles faded (though he later received a fine for illegally using corporate funds as political donations). When O'Neill heard Steinbrenner's story, he knew he was in the presence of a "plain, old-fashioned goddamned shakedown." Thereafter, he began saying of Nixon, "This fellow is going to get himself impeached...
...Shakedown Cruise. The Glomar Explorer's 170-man crew was selected and put on contract by the CIA. The 40 men on the mining staff obviously knew the ship's secret mission; the others probably did not. All refused to talk to outsiders about the ship, except to say that it had a gymnasium and the food was good. On Nov. 4, 1972, the Glomar Explorer was launched and left shortly thereafter on its shakedown cruise. According to one account, it tested its detection equipment and some of its recovery systems at the site of the 1968 accidental...
...D.F.W. Airport Shakedown...
...Obviously a facility of the size and magnitude of the new Dallas-Fort Worth Airport [June 24] requires a shakedown period before all systems function like clockwork. The determination of the citizens of Dallas and Fort Worth to build an airport unrivaled by any other will see that the problems of operation are solved and the airport of the future functions as planned...
...good read" Murdoch wants it to be. The Star's first issues are being put out by a team of veterans from other Murdoch papers and a growing number of American recruits. Murdoch plans a full-time staff of 30, will hire an American editor after the shakedown period is over. He has launched a $5,000,000 promotion campaign and hopes to begin national distribution within four months if things go well. Murdoch has confounded skeptics in the past, and the U.S. may indeed be vulnerable to foreign attack. As another Star story points...