Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, who skillfully articulates what Charles de Gaulle allows him to say, argued that the West could bargain more firmly after the projected NATO troop buildup was complete, and that it was unseemly to be hasty. There were those present who thought the French had another motive. Prolonging the Berlin crisis a few extra weeks is one way to keep some nationalist responsibility alive in the French Army, which is nearly out of hand over Algeria and Tunisia. Courteously, Rusk bowed for now to his allies' insistent demands...
Such a horse is hard to find. Occasionally, the auctioneer knocks down a real bargain: Sherluck, winner of this year's $148,650 Belmont Stakes, sold as a yearling at Saratoga in 1959 for $10,500. At the same sale, fleet-footed Globemaster, best U.S. three-year-old, was purchased by Pittsburgh Coalman Leonard Sasso for $80,000, has repaid Sasso with $300.000 in prize money. With a few such exceptions, buying yearlings-which are a year away from any track-is a risky proposition. Training injuries and illness are common among thoroughbreds, and even a well-blooded yearling...
Flics, who raced to Saint-Tropez from Marseille, wondered how the picture poachers expected to dispose of easily recognized works. Reputable dealers and patrons would shun them. There was no insurance company to bargain with, since the city had no funds for $30,000 annual premiums that would have been necessary. The burglars' only hope of reward seemed to be in ransom, and Saint-Tropez has no blood money to spare...
...Marilyn Monroe is another, into which much can be read. The catalogue ends with the aggressive reds, oranges, and yellows of Karel Appel's Dizzy Gillespie, in which one can hear the searing screams of the trumpeter's high F. It would be hard to think of a better bargain than this publication; it well merits a permanent place on one's shelves...
...bits and other pieces, sends himself to Europe to refresh himself on the shapes of chapeaux. On departure's eve, as a special bon voyage present, he invites his faithful clients to a soiree sale at 2:15 a.m., since it is never too early to catch a bargain, with every one of 400 hats marked down to only $5 a throw...