Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gutta percha ball required a more resilient shaft; the solution was supplied by hickory, which reigned supreme until the advent of steel in the age of Bobby Jones...
...never managed to shake off his challenger, even though he spent $1 million-nearly twice as much as Sasser. The Democrat's big break came when the State Labor Council at a press conference compared Brock's extraordinarily low 1975 tax payment to that of a steel worker, a railroad engineer and an auto worker-who earn far less. Brock claimed that business expenses, charitable contributions and operating costs for a blind trust reduced his tax liability. Lapel buttons with the claim "I paid more taxes than Brock" began to sprout all over, and Brock remained...
...miles ahead of Air Force One. At rallies and other public appearances, reporters either watch Ford from roped-in areas some distance away or are kept waiting on the press bus, where they listen to a "pool" reporter's walkie-talkie account. "We're trapped in a steel cocoon," says Larry O'Rourke of the Philadelphia Bulletin. "We're fed what they want us to know...
...list is constantly changing as firms are added-sometimes for unfathomable reasons-and others are dropped, often after paying the right fixer or offering lucrative investments in Arab lands. The only copy of the list that Washington has is dated 1970. Among those on the list: Motorola, CBS, Republic Steel, Kaiser Aluminum, RCA, Xerox, Lord & Taylor, Owens-Illinois, Ford, Coca Cola, Zenith...
...general's land, illusion -along with cold steel and bribery-is one of the foundations of absolute power. Even the livestock that eventually overrun the palace cannot tell the real from the fictional. Observes one foreign diplomat: "The hens were pecking at the illusory wheat fields on the tapestries and a cow was pulling down the canvas with the portrait of an archbishop so she could...