Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Despite its well-known "escape-proof" reputation, Ray asked to be transferred there. At 4:30 p.m. on Friday, he and the other inmates of Block A filed into the dining hall to have a fish supper. They were then returned to their cells for a regular head count. At 6 p.m., the operations officer of the penitentiary picked up his microphone and yelled, "The yard!" The cell doors opened, and the prisoners moved out into the enclosed yard?about the size of two football fields. The men looked like sailors: they were wearing dark blue denim dungarees and light...
...heart of the controversy: if Laetrile is legalized as a cancer cure without any evidence of its effectiveness, where will the line on such "cures" ever be drawn? Only the helpless and desperate will suffer, while the promoters of these unproven remedies will money. continue to count their...
Avers Real Estate Tycoon Byers: "I could lose my millions tomorrow and I wouldn't care, because I could make it all back in six months. I do just what failures are afraid to do." Coal King Burford puts the probability theory another way: "Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. It's what I call the Ty Cobb theory of success. In the same year that Cobb set the record for the number of bases stolen, he also had a lot of failures. There were ten or twelve...
...COUNT THE SILVERWARE. In their contacts of late with the outside world, the Russians have usually proved themselves stolidly tough and reasonably honest. Usually. In talks on the television rights for the 1980 Olympics, CBS believed until the last minute that it had concluded a bargain-only to learn that the Russians had gone to NBC for $85 million. A British diplomat recalls how during one negotiation "a Soviet diplomat led me to believe-by appropriate nods and silences, though never uttering a word-that he was willing to share certain information. When I showed him what...
...tried to tell them, which is more or less true, but no one would listen. "I betcha got them Commie priests up there, the ones that run around tryin' to get themselves married on the sly. And the Cardinal--why, he's just a Portugee, he don't even count," the drunk hollered...