Word: dime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, thievery at Leverett has forced the candy stand operated on an honor system to discontinue the sale of all items like cigarette with a high wholesale cost. A dime attached to a wire was also discovered in a coke machine. Spoilage destroyed the contents of an ice-cream vender when someone pulled out the plug...
With his eye fixed on Cinemactress Zsa Zsa Gabon, whom he has gallantly promised to marry, Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa dispatched two lawyers to the Mexican divorce mill at Cuernavaca. Their legal mission: to find out if Rubirosa's estranged fourth wife, Five-and-Dime Heiress Barbara Mutton, was entitled, during a recent fling in Cuernavaca, to call herself Princess Troubetzkoy. Rubirosa's likely ploy: if Babs is still billing herself as a princess, then maybe her 1951 Cuernavacan divorce from her fourth husband, Lithuanian Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, was no good − and Rubirosa 's marriage...
This week the safety hysteria reached a new pitch with the action of traffic officials in Westchester County, New York. In order better to propagate their gospel, they to make a short speech to each motorist as he drove up to the play booth. As they took the dime, they were to say, "This is president Eisenhower's safe driving day, so please be careful...
...novels-a bargain at less than a dime each-meet not on the bestseller list, but on literature's highest common denominator. Their authors worked the same line of rugged country defined by Faulkner as "the human heart in conflict with itself ... the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed-love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice...
...patient, a former salesgirl in a Baltimore five-and-dime store, married young and had two children. But after each birth she had a nervous breakdown. Estranged from her husband, she had three more children illegitimately, and each time suffered what psychiatrists call a "schizophrenic reaction, catatonic type." Still only 25, she is now at Maryland's Springfield State Hospital. Her brothers and sisters and her husband agreed that for her own good she should be sterilized. In a lucid interval she agreed...