Word: trashing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...around banging trash cans, things like that." Things like that include hurdling about the ice during a game like Roger Ramjet, trying to do anything and everything at once. "While other guys go crazy, I don't think I expend as much energy. I try to keep my head out there," says Watson...
Perhaps he is the man to put them there. Harvard hockey had its share of trash-can bangers, and this is a different breed of captain...
...highest-ranking American official at the Verona headquarters of NATO'S Southern Europe land forces. In the past, the Red Brigades' targets have always been Italians. The only apparently authentic message from the terrorist group was a note labeled "Communique No. 1," found in a downtown Rome trash can after police were directed there by an anonymous phone call. The message made no ransom demands but merely stated that on Dec. 17 an "armed nucleus" of Red Brigades "had captured and placed in a people's prison the Yankee pig of the American occupying forces...
...machinations to encourage Russia's withdrawal from the war-none of which had anything to do with the class struggle. The working class in Russia, to the extent that it existed, ended up a bystander rather than a key actor. The old order that was cast onto the trash heap of history consisted of an enfeebled aristocracy and a corrupt officialdom rather than a fully developed bourgeoisie or capitalist class...
...FACE OF its Herculean labors I never imagined I'd write an unfavorable review of the American Premiere Stage, let alone vigorously trash it. But I never imagined it would be so tasteless and cowardly, that it would champion plays this terrible. After rejecting the "let's-incinerate-them-so-that-a-phoenix-may-rise-from-the-ashes" philosophy of theatre criticism in principle, I find I must invoke it in this instance...