Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro named Edward Simmons was one of the most pugnacious trial lawyers in Chicago back in the 1950s. With a Phi Beta Kappa key hanging from his watch chain-he claimed to be a Howard University alumnus-Simmons tried hundreds of cases, won acquittals for many an accused criminal, and was known for meticulous appeals briefs. He was a touchy sort who once sued the Chicago Transit Authority for $1,000,000 because a bus driver had been rude to him. His colleagues noticed that he took pleasure in berating prosecutors and judges. Simmons was such a high-powered attorney...
Though the plot is infinitely complex, the events are not merely strung out in a loose chain. The plot is always alluding back to patterns it followed earlier, answering questions it asked earlier, and suddenly giving vital purpose to what earlier seemed to be pages of merely pleasant digression...
...broiler field (cutup chickens), and has begun to market dehydrated cake mixes. Unlike the conventional powdered mixes, they contain all the necessary ingredients thoroughly mixed into a "batter," and the lovin' housewife has only to add water and eggs. Last year the company acquired the nationally franchised chain of Burger King diners. That move capitalized on a number of trends: the nation's increasing mobility and affluence, the fast growth of roadside restaurants and the rapid expansion of franchising. Pillsbury estimates that Americans spend $22 billion a year eating out, and the figure will double by 1975. There...
...House against Jerry Voorhis. Since then, Klein's journalistic career has been interrupted no fewer than five times by the leaves he has taken to work as a Nixon campaign aide. Between the various campaigns, he rose over the years to become editor of the Copley chain's resolutely Republican San Diego Union (circ...
...really remembers the good old days? Bicycle chain fights? Beating up the teacher? Ducktail haircuts? The days before everyone walked around alienated, and after that, the days that everyone walked around stoned? Who remembers what it was like to not worry about getting busted? Who can tell me, who can think back and tell me about the days before acid was invented? I know, for a fact, that every single American boy has at one time rolled up the sleeves of his teeshirt to look studlier as he walked downtown; that every chick has snuck up her hems in junior...