Word: yanked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter reveled in it all, while Callaghan hoped that some of the good will for the Yank would rub off on him. Was Carter campaigning for Callaghan? "Absolutely not," said Press Secretary Jody Powell. Perhaps. But by the end of their five hours in the Newcastle area, Callaghan was working the crowds, pressing the flesh with both hands, beaming and performing. The next day he even wore his own J.C. pin-striped suit. The P.M. had learned a lesson -from a master...
Schumacher wants to yank Beale off the air, but Diana Christenson (Faye Dunaway), the network's head of programming, senses enough viewer interest in a nutty anchorman to boost the ailing network into Nielsen heaven. The news department becomes part of Christenson's entertainment empire, and, as the "mad prophet" of the air waves, Beale gains 60% of the audience and puts the double-whammy on such stolid, sane types as Walter Cronkite and John Chancellor. "Howard Beale is processed instant God," Christenson gushes, "and right now it looks like he may just go over bigger than Mary...
...same afternoon, Tanzania announced that it was boycotting the Games as a gesture against apartheid (see following story), an action that would yank from the Games one of sport's prestige athletes, Filbert Bayi, who holds the world record for 1,500 meters. Possible too was similar action by other black African countries. One week to the day before the Olympic torch was to be borne into Montreal's stunning $700 million stadium, the Games seemed to teeter on the brink of breakup. C.K. Yang, coach of the Taiwan track team and silver-medal winner in the decathlon...
...transatlantic camaraderie had everything going against it, including the barrier of a common language. G.I.'s were startled to hear their girl friends complain that they had been "knocked up" (awakened) during the night. "Say, Honey, what do you do about sex over here?" inquired a hope ful Yank in County Antrim. "Oh," said the girl, "we do be havin' our tea about that time...
...Yank and Pluck...