Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dance with each other; little children with wild eyes pick one another's pockets. Even in the "Doom Club," a hangout for U.S. officers, there is no singing. The busiest spot in town is a shop that sells lucky charms to G.I.s. Its slogan: "No V.D., No V.C., Buy from...
Naples vanished into thin air. It was then that the street-wise Neapolitan children called scugnizzi (spinning tops) began their practice of buying and selling American G.I.s. One would pick up a soldier, promise him everything, and lead him into back streets. Another kid might buy the prospect for 300 lire, and he was thus passed from hand to hand until an older scugnizzo decided it was time to act. The G.I. was first made muscio (dead drunk), and once he had passed out, his clothes were literally sold off his back, beginning with shoes and ending with underwear. That...
...unpleasantness did not occur on march, but in the town," Davis "Guys hanging around stores would stand in your way when you tried to buy something. They would ask what we thought we were doing there," he went on. "I replied that this is my country...
...qualified for the Nationals. Although the sport has strong alumni support, skiing is not recognized as a major sport at Harvard, and the team has been unable to attend the national meets in years like this one when they have eben held out West. Alumni funds suffice to buy equipment for the Nordic events, but individual members are still foting the bill for boots, and Alpine skis. Team members and coaches supply the transportation on the long four-day weekends north to the carnivals. Coach Charles Gibson has his expenses paid by the University, but receives no salary...
...says. "I drove an Opel and then a Biscayne for two years, and I learned to know every road and every Mozambican in the Rhodesias." On one return trip to Mozambique he was arrested by the authorities, who could not believe that an African could earn enough money to buy...