Word: carded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spend four years in Cambridge without meeting a Faculty member of higher rank than teaching fellow, and it is possible to receive a gentleman's C with little or no work and have the only permanent trace of one's presence here a series of impressions on an IBM card." Pre-Registration Issue, September...
...leader to weigh less than he does, acid tongues have it in Moscow, and the first "Czarina," as some of her fellow citizens mock her, to appear in the Kremlin since the fall of the Romanovs. She is also the first Soviet First Lady to use an American Express card and, as a member of the board of the Culture Fund, the first since Lenin's wife to hold a prominent public position. Her frosty intellect, sharp tongue and relatively lavish habits are the talk of Moscow. Almost from the day in 1985 when her husband took over as General...
...second popular caricature is "Wrap It Up" Raisa, the Soviet Lorelei Lee who, after admiring British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's diamond earrings on a 1984 trip to London, dropped into Cartier on New Bond Street to buy a pair ($1,780) for herself, paying with the American Express card. In Paris she asked Yves Saint Laurent for a bottle of his perfume Opium ($175 an ounce) and received it free. In London she canceled a visit to the tomb of Karl Marx for a chance to see the crown jewels. She owns four fur coats and wore three...
Since a Mother's Day fire destroyed a major Illinois Bell switching station west of Chicago, 35,000 people have learned how inconvenient and nearly unmanageable modern life can be without phones. Fax machines went down. Credit-card verification systems blinked out. Automatic cash machines popped up electronic apologies: OUT OF SERVICE. Houses were not sold, dental appointments not made, pizza not ordered...
...cultivating good relations with the U.S., China may have to stop playing the panda card. Last week the World Wildlife Fund and the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums filed suit in federal court in Washington to halt the shipment of two giant pandas from Shanghai to the Toledo Zoo. Experts contend that the endangered species' population has fallen below 1,000 and that the 100 pandas in captivity reproduce at a lower rate than those in the wild...