Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baden, she learned of his more than academic interest in the roulette wheel. He would lapse into an irrational, compulsive fever and spend all their money on a system of betting for which. Anna observed, he lacked the sang froid to execute successfully. But Anna saw that any attempt to condemn his mania would be useless--instead, she used it to her own advantage. Whenever he was tense, distraught, or ill-humored, she would encourage him to go to the casino. Inevitably he would return, unhappy with his losses--emotionally drained and much easier to deal with...
Jamming a chaw of Beech-Nut tobacco into his cheek, Larry Csonka jumped into a blue Chevrolet pickup truck and, with his older brother Joe at the wheel, bounced down a deeply rutted, brown dirt road to get a close look at 80 acres of Ohio potato and corn fields up for rent. "It's real good land," Joe said as they surveyed the rolling countryside in the fresh fall air. "It's got good drainage and you can see the good crop growing here." Larry nodded. "We can use the land," he said. "Let's take...
...Crimson deserved victory in this, its Ivy League opener, about as much as Gerald Ford deserves the presidency. Their defense was as bland and holey as an eighty-pound wheel of Kraft swiss, their offense devastating. But 15 minutes a football game does not make, and had not some higher power ordained that Columbia quarterback Mike Delaney should slip on fourth-and-two deep in Crimson territory with the Lions driving for the potential winning score late in the game, the celebration at Baker Field would still be going on this morning...
Wild Ideas. Hunt and Liddy explored with him methods of drugging a man to make him incoherent. The three discussed placing on the steering wheel of the victim's car a drug that enters the body directly through the skin, but that idea was abandoned as too chancy. Then they considered slipping a pill or capsule filled with a hallucinogen into the victim's regular medicine bottles-but there was no telling when the pill would be taken. Finally, the three debated dropping a drug into the victim's drink at a cocktail party, but since Hunt...
Lockheed's cog in the corporate-military wheel has been oiled by federally-guaranteed money, producing a scenario that reads like a twisted version of some new socialism. And despite its financial involvement, the public doesn't even buy the right to know what it's funding, let alone ensure that the money is used properly. Lockheed, its competitors in the weapons industry, and their Pentagon and congressional allies exemplify the close and pervasive government-corporate relationship of today: a corporate socialism that serves the interests of men like Haughton and their businesses, leaving the people slightly poorer...