Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jesse Helms who rises to greet a visitor, full of cracker-barrel charm and as well mannered as an overly polite schoolboy, really be the notorious "Senator No," scourge of the Senate? Poor, misunderstood Jesse Helms. A bulky 6 ft. 2 in., he has a jowly, owlish face; his sparse white hair is slicked back, and his eyebrows, frozen like question marks above his eyes, seem to ask, "Who me, cause a fuss?" A sometime Sunday-school teacher, he is fond of saying, "Well, bless your heart," his voice a velvet bass carried by a Carolina drawl...
...million people have evidently found ways to cover the necessities and then some. Discotheques are still crowded on Friday nights, and home-video rentals are booming. Some consumers are even finding bargains as businesses compete for scarce dollars by offering bonuses. One fast-food chain offers a double-size barrel of fried chicken for the price of a single, served up in what it calls the "crisis pack...
...thought OPEC was finished. The cartel began to self-destruct in the early 1980's when internecine squabbling and cheating on production quotas rendered it powerless to prop up oil prices. Combined with Carter-era conservation programs, excess production led to a world-wide glut. The price of a barrel of oil fell by one-third, ushering in the economic recovery of the Reagan...
That concert was several continents back. Since then, Rachlevsky has lived in Israel, Canada and the U.S., but in some ways the violinist, now bearded and barrel-chested, is still squinting into the audience to discern the identity of his benefactors. Lately, it seems, they are as elusive as his long-ago Moscow audience...
When I played up on our defensive set, I was usually on Hartje, and I made a couple of plays I won't forget. Within a 30-second span, I blocked two of his shots. I never knew what it was like to look down the barrel of a loaded gun until then. Each one of the blocked shots had terrific hang-time. After hitting off my stick, the ball went 30 feet over the fence...