Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There, jowls aquiver with indignation, he roared at a union convention in Washington: "We can't buy either party. If we are looking around for a party to adopt or control, we don't want the Democratic Party, because they can't deliver!" President Johnson was un moved. "As far as I have been aware," he said laconically, "labor has always been independent, and should...
...worse than what dogs ate in the past. At that time dogs ate chaff and grain." Commune members ask: "Is Chairman Mao going to allow us to starve to death?" The soldier Liu Ho-shan said: "Our country has no definite plans at all. Why are we unable to buy things...
...dollar was to "lock up all Colombians with money outside the country and not let them go until they bring back the $3 billion they have hidden abroad." His daughter Maria Eugenia Rojas de Moreno Diaz, 30, who ran for the Senate, turned up in the smaller towns to buy rice, yucca and corn at the marketplace. Then she set up a booth to resell them at a half or a third of the price, telling everyone, "This is how much it will cost after...
...long ago in Paris," recalled the speaker at Washington's Boiling Air Force Base, "I went to buy a ticket on the helicopter service. The girl at the counter asked me to spell my name. 'Oh,' she said, 'you spell it like our helicopter.' " Exactly. Aviation Pioneer Igor Sikorsky, 76, reminisced about the romance and passion of flying at a banquet honoring the father of the helicopter. "My first one was more vibration, dust and noise," he laughed, "and it couldn't fly. But now as an old man and as a designer...
...apiece. The house's eight ceramic water fountains ($500 each) have been snapped up, as have the 280 chairs ($15 each) in the boxes. Says House Manager Alfred Hubay: "Old subscribers have been complaining about those chairs for years-now they want to buy them!" Among other items sold: 15 pairs of Caruso's flesh-colored stockings (at $15 per pair), dressing-room doors ($10), brass spittoons ($25), wall sconces ($15 to $75), chandeliers ($500), columns, banisters, hat trees, and several hundred planks from the stage floor...