Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economy. He signaled American willingness to talk with developing nations about stabilizing prices for raw materials like copper, rubber and cocoa as well as oil. In a related step aimed at impressing the OPEC cartel that the U.S. is determined to conserve energy, Ford imposed a second $1-per-barrel tariff on imported oil and proposed phasing out price controls on domestic oil later this month (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
...barrel-chested man, whose post-Republican beard lends him a faint resemblance to Fidel Castro, Hess spends most of his days in the warehouse that contains the office of Community Technology Inc., the self-help organization for which he serves as unpaid project coordinator. Surrounded by posters of Russian Anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, Mexican Peasant Leader Emiliano Zapata and Revolutionary Pamphleteer Tom Paine (all of whom he admires "because they kept on doing their own sticky things until the world changed"), Hess pursues a variety of projects that more than make up in imagination what they may lack in immediate applicability...
...Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallions were sitting in the parking lot. I raced for it. Marines, lying prone, lined the area, but they were hard to see because their camouflaged uniforms blended with the tropical greenery. I almost stepped on a rifle barrel poking out from under a bush as I entered...
...recent years Latin music programs have been smash hits at New York's Madison Square Garden and Yankee Stadium. There is an embryonic curiosity about salsa on the pop scene too, among fans who are no longer charmed by recycled golden oldies-Bobby Vinton's Beer Barrel Polka, for example-or who prefer music that is spicy rather than electronically spacy. In March, salsa playing appeared on Don Kirschner's TV rock show. New York's progressive music radio stations WQIV-FM and WNEW-FM have started programming the salsa sound...
...ghetto home in a morphine induced stupor, drained by emotional stress and battle fatigue. After an initial feeling of release, he grows despondent, spending most of his days lying in bed staring at the ceiling. Tortured by a recurring nightmare in which he stands looking into an immense gun barrel, he is finally admitted to the Valley Forge Army Hospital. Essentially, Jackson can't understand why fate or circumstance or coincidence has allowed him to live when his war buddies became charred heaps during an ambush; why he was decorated with the Congressional Medal of Honor for killing 20 enemy...