Word: trumps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quite legitimately, American manufacturers often attempt to trump foreign rivals by pointing out that U.S. products have been battle-tested in Viet Nam or the Middle East. The French, however, consistently exert the most impressive sales efforts. To complete a sale of Mirages to Australia, Marcel Dassault arrived accompanied by French military officials and a senior director of the Bank of France; later a bevy of French film stars were flown...
...desire to conduct his administration more in the open and not entirely behind closed doors conflicts with Kissinger's previous methods. Kissinger has always carried out his affairs under a cloak of secrecy. His irritations at criticism or questioning during the past year, though partly a facade geared to trump up sympathy for Nixon's sinking ship, indicate that Kissinger may not be up to laying all his cards on the table and taking the salt with the sugar...
...other governments to allow their airlines to do business with Air Rhodesia. Foreign reserves are already so tight that shortages have developed in everything from Scotch to washing-machine parts. Inevitably, the economic squeeze has cut the regime's ability to play one of its best trump cards-cash income for Africans. Recently the University of Rhodesia reported that 90% of Salisbury's employed blacks make less than $133 a month, which is considered the poverty line...
Everett saved his two trump cards for the second act, but he revealed to his attuned audience a series of high card student performers who injected new life into some of the old jazz standards. The two numbers which lingered longest in Sander's hot summer air were, no doubt, Ray Brown's "Is There Anything Still There," and Duke Ellington's stock favorite "Satin Doll." Brown's eloquent tune featured a deep sax solo in the Coleman Hawkins vein by Jim Scales, who unfortunately had to battle a couple of over-zealous trumpeters to be heard. "Satin Doll...
...pastime for weight lifters, body builders and ego trippers ... From work call to lunch hour, ironpushin' regulars hit the pile with predictable regularity ... To them, working out is a contest of who is the strongest, who is the baddest... As the sun slides down ... style is now trump and all hands hold the boss suit. Pump-up freaks are in the game; they rip off [lift after lift] until their muscles are swollen with blood and then, and only then, they strip to the waist. As they remove their shirts, a discerning eye weighs the audience reaction...