Word: brands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Buildings and Grounds officials are enthusiastic about their brand new dump truck, acquired over the summer. This fine machine, making only four trips to the dump a day, enables B & G to abandon the old incinerator system. Instead of burning rubbish in their respective basements. House and Yard superintendents leave the trash on the street until B & G's new toy comes around and picks it up. Buildings and Grounds says this all will save large sums of money...
...raising the ante to a whole evening's entertainment, the pair also raise a question or two about this or that brand of it. They are so talented that the stunt and show-off side of their performance-letting the audience call the tune or enacting Dostoevsky in ten seconds-seems a mistake. At times, too, there is conflict between their manner, which is essentially a freewheeling one, and their matter, which demands the foreplanning of the revue sketch or blackout. Their eye is as deadly keen as their tongue can be brilliantly sharp; but when they impersonate, when...
...Shamyl the Avar. He was one of two fighting men to escape the ruins of the aoul. Two years later, in 1834, he was elected Imam of Dhagestan-the absolute spiritual and temporal ruler of most of the tribesmen in the Caucasus. He fired his subjects with a fanatic brand of Mohammedanism, and his dedicated Murids, or holy warriors, kept the armies of Czar Nicholas at bay for the next 25 years. As the years passed and the Czar's frustration continued, Shamyl became a European hero. Russophobic Britons forgave the raider his five wives-one of them...
...platform containing virtually none of the Arizona Senator's proposals. It did so, according to some critics, less out of conviction than from a belief that Goldwater's views were unpopular with the voters. Goldwater's Conservatism (always with a capital "C") is, after all, a rather extreme brand. It is based, pre-eminently, on the strictest possible construction of the Constitution, a concept most voters don't even understand, much less enthusiastically embrace...
Buildings and Grounds officials are enthusiastic about their brand new dump truck, acquired over the summer. This fine machine, making only four trips to the dump a day, enables B & G to abandon the old incinerator system. Instead of burning rubbish in their respective basements, House and Yard superintendents leave the trash on the street until B & G's new toy comes around and picks it up. Buildings and Grounds says this all will save large sums of money...