Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...car swished up," Cross remembers, with the banker driving, and another man in the front seat "hiding, with his head between his knees." Cross jumped into the back seat, and the car dodged through the back streets. He studied the back of the head of the person hiding in front of him. They drove past a street light. His fear vanished. "Kondo!" he shouted in Arabic. "Why are you taking me by so circuitous a route...
Cross knew Kondo, for the Jordanian had served as middleman between him and the Bedouin in previus scroll sales. He was not quite honest, but at least not dangerous. The route became less "circuitous," the car halted at the banker's mansion, and Cross awaited the scrolls which he had traveled over 6000 miles to authenticate...
...business end, the pair produced a line of loose-cut, tightly belted dresses in ordinary ginghams and rayon tweeds. The operation was tiny, but, says Rudi, "for the first time, I could do what I wanted to do." Says Bass: "It was really a wild line, like a car with wings. Sometimes I thought I was committing suicide...
...works for Marion who isn't productive," says Kauffman. His salesmen, young and mostly recruited from small colleges, are expected to see 20% more doctors and pharmacists a week than competing salesmen and to increase their sales consistently. Those who pass these tests are rewarded with air-conditioned cars, color television sets, shotguns and longer vacations. Ultimately, the most productive salesmen are admitted to membership in the "M Club." They get an Oldsmobile instead of a Chevrolet or Ford as a company car, take double vacations and stay in hotel suites instead of rooms...
Surprisingly, for a burly, blunt-talking child of the London slums, Guitarist-Lutanist Julian Bream seems to have eardrums as fragile as orchid petals. What he calls the "bloody row and chaos" of contemporary life-jangling telephones, whirring machinery, blaring car horns-can make him physically ill. He has been known to get off elevators before arriving at his floor because he found the "treacly tripe" of Muzak so grating. Dubbed "the Phantom" by musician friends because of his penchant for withdrawing into secluded rooms to commune with his gentle-speaking instruments, he would be happy to spend most...