Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...odds-on favorite to succeed President A. Whitney Griswold who died of cancer last April. As university provost and thus Yale's No. 2 faculty officer since 1961, Brewster had proved to be a. hardworking combination of scholar and administrator, and succeeded in charming New Haven in the bargain. But there were dark rumors of dissent among the 16 members of the arcane council that had the power of final decision, the Yale Corporation. For one thing, academic purists pointed out solemnly, Brewster had neither M.A. nor Ph.D. And though he was indeed a Yaleman...
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...about 8,000 people clutching audience tickets-pink or blue for most of them, the highly prized white for those with altar-side seats-had squeezed subway-tight around Bernini's ornate balda-chino, which covers the high altar underneath the basilica dome. "This is worse than the bargain basement at Klein's," complained a much-jostled librarian from Schenectady. "This will be the fourth Pope I've seen," boasted a man from Rochester, inching toward a favored spot in the front...
...gong rings, a stampede of waiting shoppers surges through the doors and overruns the basement with a fervor that has often caused near-riots. They are there to get first pick of the low-cost luxuries that have made Filene's Basement the world's most unusual bargain store...
...square foot of space than any other store in the world, accounts for a quarter of Filene's annual volume of $100 million, and is so important to the company that it is run as a completely separate store. On a normal day, up to 100,000 bargain hunters roll through its 16 entrances, and during special sales the number has risen to 175,000. Last week, waiting for a fur sale in which some $5,000 furs went for as little as $1,995, a crush of women boldly unlatched the door chain before opening time, stripped...