Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, at a mere 47, I decided that I must buy a new pair of patent leather dancing shoes-in itself a rather daring decision. Trying to make small talk with the clerk, I remarked that the shoes I was replacing had lasted ever since my college days. "Yep," he replied, "you can get a lot of wear out of this kind of shoe." And then, as he fitted the shiny new shoes to my middle-aged feet: "You're buying your last pair right...
...After reading your article, my parents offered to buy me a car in return for the surrender of my bike. I have chosen to reduce the probability of dying on the roads by four-fifths, and to join the ranks of the merry millions who consider it good sport to pick off the two-wheeled buffs. I sleep a little better each night knowing that I'm now doing the gunning...
That morning, Charles Whitman entered two more stores to buy guns before ascending, with a veritable arsenal, to the observation deck of the limestone tower that soars 307 feet above the University of Texas campus. There, from Austin's tallest edifice, the visitor commands an extraordinary view of the 232-acre campus, with its green mall and red tile roofs, of the capital, ringed by lush farm lands, and, off to the west, of the mist-mantled hills whose purple hue prompted Storyteller O. Henry to christen Austin the "City of a Violet Crown." Whitman had visited the tower...
Time to Go. Bowman began to dream. And his was a dream familiar to newsmen everywhere: he would buy himself a small-town newspaper and become a country editor, writing whatever he pleased and raising his family in a pure, pastoral setting. Unlike so many of his colleagues, though, Bowman was determined to turn his dream into reality. In 1960, he went into debt to buy an abandoned 67-acre farm in Washington County, Va., an area known for antique shops and country hams, hurley tobacco and beef cattle, spoon bread and purple, mist-hung hills. Five years later...
Almost half of the guns used in murders in 1963 and 1964 were bought-with shocking ease-through the mail. Forty-two states do not require persons to get licenses to buy hand guns, and in those states and areas with licensing laws, almost anyone who has the price of a pistol can get one. In Washington, D.C., police checked 200 persons who had received mail-order guns, found 25% of them had criminal records. In New Jersey, the Paterson Morning Call last November marked the second anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination by ordering a .38-cal. revolver...