Word: butchered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carpet. For Myer Schine, who is so secretive that he does not even disclose his age (73), the sale topped an acquisitive career that began when he was 26. With savings from jobs as candy butcher and dress salesman, he bought a roller rink in Gloversville, N.Y., parlayed the profits into a chain of properties. Many real estate insiders speculated last week that the aging Schine sold out because he was hard-pressed to find successors as sharp as himself within his immediate family...
...went to the same butcher, and I got the best meat-but I don't think I went in once a year. I ordered by telephone...
...Fooled Everybody (THE NATION)-The incredible story of Anthony ("Tino") De Angelis, the onetime Bronx butcher who oiled the way to bankruptcy for 16 companies in the most prodigious swindle of modern times...
...Major." He was also England's most brilliant writer on bridge (author of twelve books, columnist for the Observer and London's Evening News), and one of the two or three best players in the world. The other man was Boris Schapiro, 53, a gregarious ex-wholesale-butcher...
...Austria's intellectual weekly Forum, reports that today the proletariat "is taking on characteristics of the bourgeoisie." It is common to hear such refined expressions as "küss' die Hand," (I kiss your hand), or "hab' die Ehre" (I have the honor) for salutations in butcher shops. The Communist vote has dropped to virtually nothing, while the Socialist Party, which claims 76 seats in the National Assembly, has helped govern the country for 20 years in a remarkably stable coalition with the 81-seat conservative People's Party...