Word: slug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will substantiate his claim by pointing to precisely those instances in which they don't mix. There is no shortage of examples to finger--movies like Carnal Knowledge or Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator, which have thrown both concerns together on the set, only to have them slug it out until one of them stands triumphant with its foot in the other's mouth...
Certainly there can be no argument with the President's admonition to conserve food and fuel. Some of his other preachments about hoarding bucks, however, were enough to give even Franklinesque economists pause. Slug gish consumer buying, rather than ex cess demand, is one element of the cur rent stagflation. Economizing when demand is weak and saving when savings are already high are two Ford prescriptions that if taken too literally could result in deepening the recession with out necessarily curbing inflation...
...cancer, but she went on drinking anyway, "right around the clock." Although she sipped almost a fifth of Scotch a day, it did not seem to affect her work. "I never got really drunk, never had a hangover." One night while waiting for a date she took an extra slug of Scotch "to be bright and special." Instead she stumbled and cut her forehead on the mantel. Her date found her bloodied and bleary and walked out. This shocked her so much that she went...
...will take on Minnesota on Thursday night at 7:30 in the Boston Garden, and Harvard meets the top-ranked team in the country, Michigan Tech, on Friday evening. The two winners then slug it out on Saturday night at 7:30, while the losers play a consolation game at 2 p.m. that afternoon...
Harvard, on the other hand, heads for the Boston Garden Friday night to slug it out in the semi-final round of the tourney. Should the icemen pass the physical Friday, the finals follow the next night, same place...