Word: wreckings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fellow Georgian and the power he wielded as absolute master of the vast Cheka, or secret-police, organization. The sweeping postwar purge of the Leningrad party, Khrushchev believes, was part of a scheme masterminded by Beria and his "battering ram," former Premier Georgy Malenkov; the object was to wreck the careers of a troika of promising young men whom they regarded as a threat to their own eventual ascendancy. Two of those men, N.A. Voznesensky and A.A. Kuznetsov, were arrested and shot. The third, says Khrushchev, "was hanging by a thread. I simply can't explain...
...book is divided into three sections. The first, called "Bimini," ends when Andrew and David, Hudson's two young sons by an estranged wife, are killed with their mother in a distant automobile wreck. (Patrick and Gregory, Hemingway's two sons by his second wife, were injured in an auto crash in 1947.) In "Bimini," though, Hudson's confrontation with this tragedy is mercifully kept brief. Most of the section is a summer idyl, drenched in martini golds and Gulf Stream blues, centered around the sons and an only slightly too epic fishing trip on what...
...operators pose another hazard, for they often overload their rigs and use pep pills to stay awake on long hauls, which can make them dangerously overtired on the road. The men driving for the big companies superstitiously shy away from rigs that they know have been rebuilt after a wreck. The road limits a man's vision of the world, but to many it becomes almost an addiction. "A trucker is a trucker," says Chuck Graves. "You've just got to like it. We like the feeling of the open country-how big it really...
...Democratic-controlled legislature passed the bill, but not before attaching amendments that threaten to wreck the Republican Governor's plan. One amendment extends the compulsory 15% rate cut to all sectors of auto insurance, including collision, fire and theft, without any change in the coverage to justify the reduction. Another forces insurers, with few exceptions, to guarantee lifetime renewal of liability policies. Says Sargent's legislative assistant, Christopher Armstrong: "I can be convicted of manslaughter, be caught speeding ten times in one year, get in seven serious accidents resulting in claims of $125,000, and the company still...
...Lapchick started with the Original Celtics during the 1920s, helped them to so many lopsided victories that the American Basketball League finally ordered them to disband. But it was as a coach that he contributed most to the game. Kind, almost fatherly with his players -and a nervous wreck when he watched them in action-Lapchick brought New York's St. John's University to national prominence in the '30s and '40s, then in the 1950s made championship contenders out of the mediocre professional New York Knickerbockers. He ended with a crescendo as he began, returning...