Word: dime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government employees, the care of Eskimos, and the spaghetti supply of Naples. The American taxpayer is the latest product of aeons of human progress. From his forefathers, despots were able to extract, under club or sword or torture, a livre here and a bushel of turnips there. But every dime the American taxpayer gives up has been voted out of him by his duly elected representatives...
...staff (it is already being printed there). Next month she will move Fresno staffers into a new million dollar building. But like other publishers, the queen of the Bees has been hit by rising costs; last week she raised the papers' newsstand price from a nickel to a dime...
Divorced. By Cinemactress Gene (Laura) Tierney, 31, who claimed that "he didn't give me a dime in ten years": Manhattan Dress Designer Oleg Cassini, 38; after 10½ years of marriage, a rift in 1946-48, two daughters; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...articles serializing his recently published book. "I Led Three Lives," Philbrick declared that the Party's "Pro-group" or elite, "the vanguard of the vanguard," was composed of a number of "surprising personalities." "Culture," he stated, "simply oozed out of out Pro-group; graduate and honorary degrees were a dime a dozen...
...Dime novels eventually brought Buntline an income of $20.000 a year, but much of it was squandered on sprees or paid out as hush money to one of his earlier wives. By 1880, he had settled down (with wife No. 6) on his Stamford estate, where he was known as Colonel E.Z.C. Judson, former "Chief of Scouts in the Rebellion of 1861-5," and a respectable literary gentleman. "I might have paved for myself a far different career in letters," the colonel liked to say, 'but my early lot was cast among rough men on the border . . ." He died...