Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carl Withers, president of the Shaker Heights Republican Club, is one of the remaining loyalists: "I consider Watergate in the category almost of a fraternity prank, where the victim got his hand caught in a barrel of chestnuts. The hiding of the break-in by underlings was not the type of crime that merits such severe punishment-considering the good deeds President Nixon has accomplished." People who agree with Withers-and even many who take a less charitable view-believe that Nixon has suffered enough. But many others are not prepared to forgive or forget. According to a California Poll...
...heroes like Sir Walter Raleigh and villains like Guy Fawkes were once imprisoned, was jammed with the usual crowd of summer tourists last week. Suddenly, the three-ton 18th century Royal George cannon, a favorite exhibit with children, exploded with a deafening roar. The blast hurled the bronze gun barrel five feet into the air, showered bystanders with lethal splinters from the oak carriage, and blew out windows and a door 90 feet above...
...bootleg bonnet" is a black felt hat used to strain the fresh brew into a barrel. The term "100 proof was originally known as "gunpowder proof because the British found that whisky with about 50% alcohol, when mixed with gunpowder, would burn with a steady blue flame. Moonshining is not a thing of the past, either. As late as 1972, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms destroyed more than 2,000 illicit stills, and admits it barely scratched the surface of the trade...
...simply: "Hits a blamed ugly drink." And then there is Colonel Leland DeVore, whose throat involuntarily contracts whenever he thinks of moonshine: "I hear, as if from far away, the gagging whisper of a long-lost friend whose favorite saying was 'Vile stuff-I wish I had a barrel...
...hypocritically calling for price reductions while actually raising prices, favored a slightly smaller hike, "to show the industrialized nations that we are serious when we say that they must keep inflation in check." Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani reportedly threatened to force prices down by dumping millions of barrels of cut-price petroleum on the market. In order to keep the cartel together, the delegates settled on a compromise that will hold posted prices steady but raise by 2% the royalties that they collect on each barrel from the companies. That works out to a mere...