Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both Connally and Goldwater agreed that Watergate's repercussions were wider than the G.O.P. Wrote the Arizona Senator: "The reverberations of scandal and corruption will shoot through both major parties and create real trouble for incumbents." A Gallup poll found that while voter identification with the Republican Party has dropped four points since the 1972 election, to 24%, those who said they were Democrats has stayed at 43%. The only increase has been among those who consider themselves members of neither party...
Grim Warning. Luckily, they did not shoot. They set deadline after dead line for the arrival of the plane and their departure, and each time one deadline expired they set another. About 27 hours after they entered the embassy. Syrian Arab Airlines had provided a Caravelle jet and the French government had arranged for safe transit...
...make up, lose weight, stand, work before a camera, but you can't impart that special instinct a great model has," says Eileen Ford of her longtime protégée. Diana Vreeland, onetime editor of Vogue, spotted it early in the game. Watching Lauren at a shoot one day, Vreeland told the then second-string model: "You have presence." That appraisal landed Hutton on Vreeland's picture pages, and on the pages of many other magazines from then...
...first novel, Columnist Jimmy Breslin copped a plea. Instead of drawing on his vast knowledge of New York's underbelly, he turned out a spoof on the Mafia called The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. In his second effort, a richer and wiser Breslin pleads a cop, comes up with a truly arresting character: Dermot Davey, 29, an Irish Catholic New York patrolman who does not "like one hour of one day of one week of his life...
...largest oil firms, followed by big independent refiners, began to withdraw temporary competitive allowances (TCAs) from service stations they supply. TCAs are discounts on wholesale gas that enable a dealer to hold prices down at the pump, usually during a price war; removing them causes prices to shoot up. As TCAs came off, the national average price of regular gas rose from less than 34? per gal. to more than 37?; in some markets, prices rose 6? per gal. in a matter of days. After the freeze went into effect Aug. 15, of course, the steep rise stopped...