Word: dime
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Other damage that could receive a charge, according to Gingo, includes “any number of things,” such as painted walls and broken windows. “It’s not nickel-and-dime stuff,” he said...
...always thought of Nick as someone whose interests are widespread and various, who could change subjects on a dime,” says Keller, who first worked with Kristof during the late 1980s, when they were both reporting in Asia...
...authorized a radio appeal urging every American to send a dime directly to the President to help beat polio. The first days of this “March of Dimes” campaign produced a disappointing $17.50. However, a few days later, mail trucks started arriving at the White House. First there were 30,000 letters, then 50,000, and 150,000 the next day. Desks, offices, and corridors were buried in mail sacks. A total of 2,680,000 dimes had been sent. With this outpouring of generosity from ordinary Americans, Roosevelt established the nonprofit health agency known today...
...series of captivating attempts at dealing with 9/11: first the photographs that filled newspapers, the television documentaries, then “The 9/11 Commission Report,” which became a national best-seller. In many ways, the film is about how ordinary life can turn on a dime, from mundane to terrifying, and about how fear, chaos, and courage build deep in our hearts. In many ways, Greengrass is telling a spiritual tale. “United 93” is a thriller, yes, but it both begins and ends with a prayer—the rhythmic Arabic chanting...
...Sandra E. Pullman ’02, the president of the Harvard ACLU and a former Crimson arts editor, defended the decision to invite Flynt, saying that the documentary “is being composed by an outside film company, and he’s not making a dime from it.” She added that Flynt had “expanded the reach of free speech [protections through] his precedent-setting defeat of Jerry Falwell...