Word: beating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better than half a million dollars: seven combines, six $20,000 trucks for hauling the cut grain to the elevators, three service pickups loaded down with about $20,000 worth of spare parts (the Smalls do all their own repair work), three house trailers, a 1976 pickup and a beat-up four-door blue American Motors station wagon...
Nowhere has the dollar faded so badly as in Japan, where it has shrunk by 40% in a year. Confronted with a $2.50 can of beer, a $5 breakfast or a $30 minute-steak lunch, Americans beat a hasty retreat?"chuckling in amazement," says a shopkeeper on Tokyo's Ginza. Says a veteran tourist who is staying at Tokyo's Imperial Hotel, where the cheapest room for two is $80 a night: "It's just plain scandalous. I never thought I'd see the day when the greenback would turn into Mickey Mouse money. It really hurts my pride...
...feel secure enough to go out by myself. I get very depressed." She is convinced of her husband's guilt-"I was looking right at him, talking to him, as he was dragging me back into the house"-and she remembers that he used to beat her and Dee. Once, she recalls, he killed Dee's kitten by smashing it against the kitchen floor...
Last week U.S. District Judge William Mehrtens ordered Florida to give the treasure back. Said he: "Merely because agents of the state covet the treasure does not give the agents the right to take it." Fisher was jubilant. Said he: "When a little guy like me can beat the government in court, it is a good signal for free enterprise." Don't celebrate too much, Melvin. There's still the income...
Basically, you can't beat the Confi-Guide if you want to find what is to be taken here. It's informative, humorous, interesting and on sale for only two bucks at registration, around the campus and at the Crimson, 14 Plympton St. Get it, your education shouldn't be boring...