Word: wrecking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alaska, Fiji and Tahiti, the waves became nothing more than wildly fluctuating tides. At Pago Pago they carried three houses into the bay; in New Zealand, sheep dogs chained to kennels were swept out to sea and drowned, while the waves' great ebb eerily exposed the wreck of a British frigate sunk in 1840 off Auckland...
...Abraham Lincoln made a phone call from Gettysburg to his press-agent in Manhattan. Abe was rebellious. He was going to shave his beard and wear a cardigan. The flack demanded that he keep the beard, shawl, stovepipe and string tie, or he would wreck his "image." Abe then announced that he had his speech neatly typed, and this distressed the flack even more. "Abe," pleaded the pressagent, "how many times have we told you: on-the-backs-of-envelopes...
...floor of the U.S. Senate last week, the Republican minority leader rose in partisan wrath. "Well-placed, well-timed torpedo!" cried Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen, hotly declaring that Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson had helped Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev wreck the summit conference by presenting Khrushchev with the thought that he could ignore Ike and deal better with the next U.S. President...
When the schedule was first announced, doctors in many départements went on informal strike. They played hooky from their hospitals and offices or treated only emergency cases. Last week's resistance was described as an "administrative strike" designed to wreck the bureaucratic machinery with implausible diagnoses and impossible claims. So far at least, the patients, who will now have to wait longer for their money while the red tape is unsnarled, have made surprisingly little protest against the doctors' sabotage-like all good Frenchmen, they admire anyone who manages to defy the bureaucracy...
...single candidate is likely to win a majority at the polls, hoped to block him with a post-election coalition. But he would be a hard man to handle. As a Belgian official puts it, "Lumumba is bad for the government either way. If he loses, he will wreck it; if he wins, he will swallow...