Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sons will be discouraged. When the Democratic Party meets in Miami Beach next July to anoint its presidential choice, some of the more garish rituals of American political folklore will be missing. So, too, the party's reformers hope, will be the spectacle of bosses brokering power in cigar-clouded hotel suites amid a certain heady cynicism about how the game is played. No one is certain what will replace the old game. Ever since the broken heads and tear gas of Chicago more than three years ago, the Democratic Party has been embarked on an extraordinary and ambitious...
...needless to say, at the United Nations. But across town, NATO was conducting an even more tumultuous and unstatesmanlike session. This NATO was not the North Atlantic Treaty Organization but the equally embattled National Association of Theater Owners. The gloom at the meeting was almost as thick as the cigar smoke...
Timid Grandmother. Most of the church's small margin of liquid assets is simply plunked into savings and checking accounts-the "cigar box" approach. The rest consists of securities and commercial property worth almost $1 billion, which puts the church a notch above the Rockefeller Foundation. But this money is often badly invested. One bank trust officer scanned a diocesan portfolio and remarked, "If your grandmother were unusually timid, this is what she'd do with her money." Sometimes the yield does not even cover the cost of investment. Gollin thinks U.S. dioceses are "perhaps the least effectual...
Eventually, Phillips was rewarded with a choice assignment: duty in Harlem, where the payoffs are the biggest in the city. He soon was on cordial terms with gamblers known as Joe Cuba, Ted Cigar, the Gimp, the Gout and Spanish Raymond. He recalled his first meeting with a gambler called Eggy. "He walked over to the car and he says, 'Are you the new men?' We said, 'Yes, we are.' He says, 'You get $20 a day. Is that all right? We take care of the men who were here before you, we take care...
...movement for freer classrooms, Herndon and a fellow-teacher got permission from their school to organize a daily two-hour unstructured class, which students could elect to take in place of their study halls. They planned it blithely assuming that the chance to make King Tut journals and cigar boxes instead of wasting time pretending to be busy, would thrill the kids. And besides the fun and games prospectus, they went a step further and assured the kids that there would be no grades, and that the students would be allowed to leave the classroom at any time, without asking...