Word: snuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cannot help but be excited by a man who challenged the seemingly unstoppable bureaucratic machine that was the Mondale candidacy and won. The party fashioned a delegate selection process that was supposed to snuff out underdogs like Hart. But the men in the back rooms made one mistake; the picked a man whom no one wanted, a man who called for a return normalcy when the American electorate had elected Ronald Reagan precisely to get away from that normalcy...
...wall of a Security Express compound in East London, eventually making off with about $10.5 million in bank notes. A month later, a lone cat burglar stole into Waddesdon Manor, a National Trust estate in Buckinghamshire, and carried away about $1.5 million worth of antiques, jewel-encrusted gold snuff boxes, figurines and rings from the famous Rothschild collection. In South London, a burglar climbed to the roof of Dulwich College, smashed a skylight, descended into the art gallery and used a crowbar to wrench from the wall Rembrandt's painting of Jacob de Gheyn III, worth $5 million. Police...
...Erroll's first wife, Lady Idina, Countess of Erroll, was less selective. Her bed was known as "the battleground." Recalled one of her many house guests: "We all used to end up in it at various times of the day and night." Cocaine in Kenya was sniffed like snuff; champagne was the water of life...
...slow A-10 Thunderbolt is a "close-support" aircraft, intended to swoop in low over a battlefield and savage the enemy's infantry and armor. When the prototype jets started flying in 1975, some Air Force brass were worried that its GAU8 antitank cannon was not up to snuff. The nose-mounted, 30-mm weapon was like a Gatling gun, with seven rotating barrels. And like a Gatling gun, it seemed a little oldfashioned, unworthy of a state-of-the-art Air Force. Colonel Bob Dilger was ordered to Dayton to take over the GAU8 program...
Inflation fears could snuff the investment rush to fixed-income securities...