Word: treating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...broke the news forcefully to the crowd, expecting them to realize that the move would cause other papers to strike in sympathy and thus deprive the rally of press coverage. He awaited boos and hisses. But the crowd cheered wildly, excited at the news that police had begun to treat the organized strikers with such strong-arm tactics...
...coal companies-a formula exceedingly difficult to devise. Moreover, scores of new mines will have to be opened in the East. To avoid health hazards, effective scrubbers-devices that remove dangerous sulfur fumes from the stack gases of coal-burning plants-must be perfected and other means found to treat high-sulfur coal. All that will require billions of dollars in new capital for what is now a $5 billion industry...
From the time of Caesar's Commentaries onward, military historians have tended to treat armed combat as a means to larger political ends or the chessboard on which generals tested strategy. There are, to be sure, shelves of How-I-Suffered-in-the-War stories. But Keegan wanted something more, a broad, systematic answer to the question that most bothered his Sandhurst students: "What is it like to be in a battle...
...rule, most comedians treat comedy as a security blanket. They comfort the audience by making whatever unsettles, disturbs or frightens people the chief butt of their jokes. That accounts for the wide popularity of sexual humor, of gibes at local stereotypes and assumed rural, urban, regional and national characteristics. But the rare comedian, impelled by motives that lie too deep for analysis, makes the audience itself the butt of his humor, attacks head-on the smugness, vanity and hypocrisy that people prefer to hide or ignore. Placed in the direct line of comic fire, an audience, and by extension...
...Mountain is among the few not to find switching sides a tempting treat. He plans to use the year of grace provided by the sympathetic winner to decide if he wouldn't rather just quit. He already has a host of legal wizards and kin poring over the challenge document, looking for a loophole big enough for the bulbous Mike...