Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ready to deal. For two hours they packaged 18-gram portions of cocaine in cellophane, attached them to greeting cards with flypaper and placed the cards in business envelopes. At different intervals and from different places, the cards, 47 in all, were mailed to the business address of one of Phil's friends in Chicago. Phil never opened the envelopes; he merely picked them up and delivered them to a local dealer recommended by Rafael, charging him $1,000 an oz. For his work and $3,000 investment, Phil made $25,000. He repeated the scam for a few more...
...appearances, like any other vacationer: at ease in a time of turmoil. Carter, to be sure, was in the midst of digesting all the disturbing news abroad; he was preparing for the opening of the 96th Congress this week and conferring with advisers on the State of the Union address that he will deliver on Jan. 23. Even so, the usually talkative President seemed strangely becalmed...
Said Brown in his second-term inaugural address: "It is time to get off the treadmill, to challenge the assumption that more government spending automatically leads to better living." His solution: amend the U.S. Constitution to prohibit the government from spending more each year than its revenues...
West's neatest trick, though, is reserved for the end. One of the things that Spada demands, as the price for not poisoning mankind, is permission to address the General Assembly of the United Nations. In real life, of course, he could do so and no one would notice, but West ignores this for the sake of his artifice. The resulting episode is thus one of the neatest bits of whimsical invention since A.A. Milne created the heffalump...
...address that statement in two parts. First, mastering that Independent "trivia" quiz was about as difficult as beating Loyal Park in the high hurdles. Secondly, you're only a freshman, and unless your last name is Scheper, you probably think that Trivia is something that pharmacists aren't allowed to sell over the counter...