Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...customer may lose his money, but he will lose it honestly," Nevada Gaming Control Board Chairman Frank Johnson likes to say. And so most tourists believe; they are content to play at the tables in hopes of beating the odds, fully aware that they favor the house. If the players lose-and most do-they can go away at least feeling that they have had a fair shake. Then abruptly last week Nevada's gambling industry found its image marked with two black eyes; the state Gaming Control Board closed the big Lake Tahoe Hotel Casino after detecting crooked...
...lissome or heavy-legged, no woman seems content until she has at least tried them on. And for the first time, women find themselves wishing there was a dressing room in the shoe store. "There is just no way to be modest about trying on these hip waders," sighed a shoe customer at Manhattan...
...flat collages and reliefs and four freestanding aluminum constructions show that even his steadfast adherence to collage has not inhibited a distinct and rational progression in both style and content. In the early 1950s, Marca-Relli was concerned with semi-abstract figures of people, then moved on to swelling abstract panoramas of jostling, fluttering and flying scraps of canvas. From that period, 1958's Night Freight, says Marca-Relli, "has a feeling of movement which could have been the rumbling of a quiet freight filled with bodies being taken away in the night...
...this, she is not unfeminine. She and her friends spend their meager clothes-allowance in Tel Aviv, not content with the kibbutz's anachronistic styles. Every night she deliberates over what to wear to the evening meal. She passes long hours after work playing with her year-old nephew...
Style is more relevant than content in this stage of politics, Huntington thinks. He attributes peace candidate Dzu's strong 800.000-vote showing to a rabble-rousing political style similar to Ky's, which impressed the voters more than his platform...