Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baltimore she killed an old-lady neighbor in her 80s, Mrs. Clara Post, by simply pushing her over a bannister into a stairwell. That way Rhoda got an opal pendant which Mrs. Post had promised to leave her when she died. Rhoda was seven then. Rhoda was a good student. In the old maids' school she tried earnestly to win the penmanship medal. When she lost it to another student, she snatched it from him at the annual school picnic, then shoved him off a dock and drowned him to cover the theft...
Servants' Servants. Florida's new boom bears little resemblance to past periods of bubbling prosperity such as the '80s and '90s, when Oilman Henry Flagler opened up the new vacationland by building a string of hotels down the East Coast and a railroad that eventually reached Key West. It is also different from the '20s, when fun-seeking tycoons went south in private railroad cars with a staff of servants for the servants, and fell over each other to buy medieval houses and fake antique furniture from Addison Mizner. Gone are the hordes of "developers...
...Packer was a good mining engineer with a speculator's itch. He had an unshakable belief in America, in progress, and in his own good luck. Like most people in Arizona of the '80s, he dreamed of striking it rich. His son Tommy heard him say that he would "rather not live at all than live a failure." But he never really expected to fail, and his dream came real when a crusty old prospector partner led him to one of the richest copper strikes in Arizona. With the Blue Chip mine making him richer every day, Packer...
...Augusta airport David, 5½, emerged, waving a tall black cardboard hat. "He's a Pilgrim," explained grandmother Mamie Eisenhower. In an hour Ike was on the first tee in a golf foursome. Playing 18 holes, he was off his usual game (middle 80s), and shooting in the 90s. Then the President settled down in "the Eisenhower Cabin," as the Augusta National Golf Club officially calls the $75,000, seven-room house it built for Ike. The "cabin," styled with a white-columned front porch and a steep slate roof with dormer windows, perches on a ridge...
...Gawd! What a Night!" Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was a legitimate child of the theater. His father, James, was a matinee idol of the '80s who discovered a milk & honey of a role in The Count...