Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interested in protecting the artist." Painter Theodoros Stamos lambasted dealers who "hold a picture for two years before they send it back, so you forget what the hell it looks like." Then added, "I don't give a damn about the public. They've done nothing but buy a name...
Stimulation sometimes takes the form of outright bribery. At the National Training Institute near Washington, D.C., boys earn points as they progress in such basic subjects as reading and arithmetic. They can use their credits to buy free time in a lounge, play a pinball machine, purchase clothing, even to earn a private room. The system works: one group of boys advanced 2½ grades in three months. This bears out the contention of training school teachers that their kids are far from stupid, even though most have been kicked out of at least one school...
...theoretician of the French Communist party, has written a book called From Anathema to Dialogue to "answer in a fraternal manner the appeal addressed to all" by Roman Catholicism. Praising it in the conservative Paris daily Le Figaro, French Novelist François Mauriac urged his fellow Catholics to "buy this book by a Communist" and read it. German Jesuit Theologian Karl Rahner has offered to write a commentary for a German translation...
...rise in consumer spending during the first half of 1966, and signs that they are right are already showing up. In other years, post-Christmas shoppers mobbed stores mainly to return gifts or spend gift certificates. This year the mobs were bigger, and they were there mainly to buy. At Chicago's Charles A. Stevens & Co., only the two days before Christmas surpassed the sales volume of the first day after. Coming after a 5.5% rise in Christmas sales, the after-Christmas rush trimmed store inventories to their lowest point in years...
Under the new law, the state is empowered to buy the transit yards--across from Kirkland and Eliot Houses--and give as many as 11 of the 12 acres of land to the federal government, which will run the library...