Word: buffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dozen presidential tie clips and ladies' pins, with instructions to spread them around when I thought it appropriate," said Connors. Brezhnev will get more than a tie clip. "I've ordered two engraved Colt revolvers or for the General Secretary," Connors added. "Brezhnev is quite a western buff...
...reverse the rail system's dangerously downhill direction, Premier Kakuei Tanaka, an avid train buff, helped push through the Diet a ten-year, $40 billion program to upgrade JNR's equipment and tracks...
...Curt Dawson and Ronald Frazier (who likes to smoke a long clay pipe) are a trifle bland as Harcourt and Dorilant, two gallants who envy Horner's success. Rex Everhart, as Sir Jasper, is foolish enough but lacks class, and should be told that the game is blindman's-buff, not blindman's-bluff. David Rounds, with beauty spots on his right chin and left cheek, has great fun with the role of Sparkish, a fop (who has a counterpart in most Restoration comedies), wielding a lorgnon and indulging in an affected speech that suggests a male Edith Evans. These...
...first floor of their house, shut off the second floor, unplug electric clocks, radios and the refrigerator, turn off most lights and eat cold meals. As Mrs. Boyle put it, "What if we really had to live this way?" Even Mark Boyle, 17, an ecology buff, concluded that "this is just not practical. How long can a family go on like this?" In view of the trouble that Burlington had in trimming its energy wick back for two days, the question more properly is: How long can the country go on without taking some sensible steps to prevent energy waste...
...nerves is not the only thing backgammon buffs have to watch out for. There is also a new breed of hustler lurking: the backgammon shark. Charming and sociable, sharp-minded and able to drink heavily without impairing their skills, they haunt the fashionable resorts and hope to get into a game with a wealthy pigeon like the notorious European buff who has reputedly dropped $500,000 or so in the past three years at the backgammon board. "You can make $1,000 to $1,500 a week by playing these people," says one hustler who tries to remain anonymous...