Word: barrell
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...ironic that the international left is complaining about Allende's overthrow when all the Chilean army did was accept the Mao doctrine that "power comes from the barrel of a gun." Looks like the left can dish it out, but can't take...
...regime decreed that Libya would nationalize 51 %-enough for full control-of five major oil companies operating in the country, including properties owned by Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Socal and Shell. The Libyan government also declared that the companies must raise the price of oil from $4.90 to $6 a barrel. If the oil companies give in to Libya, they may be forced to make similar deals with oil nations in the Persian Gulf...
...William E. Fornoff, 56, the blustery, barrel-chested former administrative officer of Baltimore County, a post he held under both Agnew and his Democratic successor as county executive, Dale Anderson. In June, Fornoff pleaded guilty to a charge of "impeding the enforcement" of federal tax laws, admitting that he frequently delivered quantities of cash to "a public official." In a strategy similar to that of Judge Sirica after the Watergate trial, Federal Judge Alexander Harvey II has delayed sentencing Fornoff, presumably so that he will cooperate fully with Beall in the investigation...
...feet pounded against asphalt, not astroturf, and the roar was not from the throats of the adoring thousands who used to watch him carry a football, shoot a basketball, and hit a baseball, but from the barrel of a gun, a .357 Magnum in the hands of an off-duty Sky Marshall...
...back to Canada, leaving Cambridge forever. This particular damn fool came to him with an offer to buy the shop. As Gordon told it, and I hope it wasn't true, this guy offered to buy out the shop, lock and stock--I don't think Gordon owned a barrel--for $600. Then, with the benefit of the Grolier's location, and Gordon's good will, he proposed to open Harvard Square's first porno book store. Gordon threw the damn fool out, God bless him, and went on running the shop till the day he died...