Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether the party's pledges of reform remained believable after the balloting was another question. Mrs. Harris declared firmly that Democrats would "wreck" the party if reform went unheeded. Some of the embittered losers were predicting, perhaps too gloomily, that a liberal fourth party in 1972 was now inevitable. Many Democrats had an ominous inkling that what they had said could never happen again was already beginning to happen...
...justified. The Government would then have a choice of buying peace by overruling its own board -a practice that eventually destroyed Britain's Prices and Incomes Board in the late 1960s-or seeking to break the strike by injunction. The latter move might arouse enough labor hatred to wreck a wage-price policy that in the end will have to rest largely on voluntary compliance and that cannot be fully policed from Washington...
...because of defective sensors. Ernst Fiala, Volkswagen's worldwide research director, worries about changes in air pressure and the shock factor inside small cars after the bags suddenly expand. "When you're firing four large air bags, you can reasonably expect that the car will be a wreck," he warns. "The scheme is safety overkill." Moreover, Government tests show that when air bags explode into shape, the noise (170 decibels) could permanently deafen some motorists. Chrysler officials, going farthest of all, have bluntly informed Douglas Toms, director of the Transportation Department's enforcement agency, that they will...
...open conflicted with the ascendancy of the demon Rahu,*who occasionally punishes unseemly conduct by destroying a man's wisdom, money or children. Business picked up later, however, and in Madras alone 150 drunks had been arrested by nightfall. That pointed up another worry. Too much tippling could wreck the state's principal industry: movies in the Tamil dialect. Since no one else understands them. Tamil movies are shown over and over to local viewers, who are often so taken with the actors, plot or music that they come back a third or fourth time. The problem...
...title is taken from a Gericault painting that depicts with romantic overkill the pain and bestiality of a raftful of men and women who, in 1816, survived the wreck of the French ship Medusa off Africa, floating for 16 days without rescue. Their actions came to symbolize the voracious selfishness of 19th century bourgeois society...