Word: rams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whatever might have happened behind the scenes, onstage Gorbachev moved abruptly to the right. He proposed constitutional changes, which he hopes to ram through the Congress of People's Deputies, that would further strengthen presidential authority. He announced plans to form civilian vigilante groups to combat black markets and profiteering, and put the KGB in charge of monitoring the distribution of foreign food. Most striking, he sacked Vadim Bakatin, the moderate Interior Minister, and replaced him with a two-man team: Boris Pugo, former chief of the Latvian KGB, as minister; and General Boris Gromov, an officer often said...
...immoral behavior. We never discussed the club's support for Peninsula and its positions with members at a general meeting. Anderson never sought any member's input on the issue. Instead, the issue was only discussed at an executive board meeting, which Anderson and his sycophants used to ram the letter through without alteration or amendment...
...would be bad if people try to ram [the need for public interest law] down the students' throats," President of the American Bar Association, Law School Division (ABA/LSD) John C. Buckley said. He said that pressing Clark too severely could give the dean an excuse to reduce funding for other clinical programs--which most students feel are equally important...
...they pressed us, we were going to ram it down their throat, and we did all that," Roby said about the Long Beach St. game. "We were going to challenge their guards, even though we were seven inches smaller. We did all that and we came up short and that's frustrating. These guys need to be rewarded for doing things the way we want them to do so that they can really be convinced that what we're asking them to do is going to allow us to win our league...