Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Some of the radical young complain about their revolution being co-opted by the Establishment. But on the other hand, countering revolution head-on has stimulated equal amounts of Establishment enterprise. Pinkerton's, the venerable private constabulary that hunted down Butch Cassidy and was McClellan's private OSS...
As. advertised in The Wall Street Journal, Pinkerton's Bomb Blanket is designed to "stop up to 90% of the destructive fragmentation of most home-made bombs."
Thus, "if a lethal homemade bomb is planted in your building, you can take immediate, decisive action to save lives and minimize costly damage." The price is only $149.50, with a 10% discount for orders of five or more. There might, of course, be some additional expense in finding a...
AMERICA'S long embryonic supersonic transport plane, which has had no fewer than four Presidents willing to claim fatherhood, turned out last week to be only an idea whose time has not yet come. The development may be merely a forced rest; for the time being, however, the giant...
The Senator was William Proxmire, Wisconsin Democrat. He has led some lonely fights in the past, but none seemed as desperate as his campaign against the SST. The nation has already spent $800 million on the plane; last year, when Proxmire made a similar attempt to cut off the flow...